Building the Black Metropolis
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Building the Black Metropolis

African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago

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eBook - ePub

Building the Black Metropolis

African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago

About this book

From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald's operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long-overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. Together they examine how factors like the influx of southern migrants and the city's unique segregation patterns made Chicago a prolific incubator of productive business development—and made building a black metropolis as much a necessity as an opportunity.

Contributors: Jason P. Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, and Robert E. Weems Jr.

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Table of contents

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