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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been "the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech." The reason, of course, lay in their temporary -- but absolute -- power over a client. With a flick of the wrist, 19th-century black barbers could have slit the throats of the white men they shaved. In Knights of the Razor, Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., explores this extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2009-]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
volumes <1 > ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the historical record. This work is the only source that provides a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activities among African Americans. This new,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties--self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth's mighty swing. But she never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team. Or be the first and only woman ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. From her childhood in Philadelphia to her groundbreaking role as business manager and owner of the Newark Eagles, Effa Manley always fought for what was right. And she always swung for the fences.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of William Powell, an African American golfer discriminated against because of his race, and how his perseverance and spirit helped him rise from a caddy to the first African American owner of a public golf course.
Author
Publisher
Bolden, an Agate imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned company in the history of the book industry. In this memoir, Sana reveals how his experience with Karibu jumpstarted his lifelong journey to better understanding himself, human nature, faith, and American culture which ultimately helped him develop the powerful personal...
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