Building the Black Metropolis : African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Early Black Chicago Entrepreneurial and Business Activities from the Frontier Era to the Great Migration: The Nexus of Circumstance and Initiative -- 2. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868-1940 -- 3. The Rise and Fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago Financial Wizard -- 4. Contested Terrain: P. W. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the Founding of the Douglass National Bank -- 5. King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S. B. Fuller -- 6. A Master Strategist: John H. Johnson and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black Business Enterprise -- 7. Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century -- 8. The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago's Black McDonald's Operators and the Demands of Community -- 9. Positive Realism: Tom Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies -- 10. Oprah Winfrey: The Tycoon -- 11. Racial Desegregation and Black Chicago Business: The Case Studies of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company -- Contributors -- Index.

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