The history of Black entrepreneurs from colonial times through most of the nineteenth century in the US whaling … responsibilities. To provide a more complete picture of Black entrepreneurs born in North America who began their business prior to … 1865, three significant whaling captains and seven contemporary Black entrepreneurs were chosen and brief biographies are …

In the decades after the Civil War and before the Great Migration, a set of remarkable Black business leaders and …; Georgina Mingo Whetsel, who employed a hundred men in her ice harvesting business; May B. Mason, who made the first Black … the first privately owned African American bank in Chicago. Each of these remarkable Black business leaders has received …

this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have … commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic … specific application to Black America. A new foreword by Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban …