Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma. Robert E. Weems Jr. restores Overton to his rightful place in American business history. Dispelling stubborn myths, he traces Overton's rise from mentorship by Booker T. Washington, through early failures, to a fateful move to Chicago in 1911. There, Overton started a popular magazine aimed at African American women that helped him dramatically grow his cosmetics firm. Overton went on to become the first African American to head a major business conglomerate, only to lose significant parts of his businesses--and his public persona as "the merchant prince of his race”--in the Depression, before rebounding once again in the early 1940s. Revealing and panoramic, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times.
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"Unflappable", documents the first 40 years in the life of Gary, Indiana native Carolyn E. Mosby-Williams, a veteran public relations and marketing professional who is currently the chief marketing officer for a global not-for-profit ...
Blair, William. Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861* 1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Blassingame, John W Black New Orleans, 1860*1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Henry, Oct. 9, 1840, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Frederick Douglass, Jr., March 3,1842, Lynn, Massachusetts; Charles Redmon, second son, 1845; Annie, fifth and last child, March 22, 1849 in Rochester, NY. Career: Worked for Captain ...
Chronicles the rise of John Johnson from poverty to millionaire by the time he was thirty-one, detailing the lessons he learned along the way that helped him achieve success
Rev. ed. of: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles. 1993, and of later edition: Queen of the Negro leagues, 1998.
Essays provide information the African American business community and African American business leaders in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
HOW TO START A HAIR SALON & DAY SPA: start something beautiful with your own hair salon and say spa. As busy consumers increasingly seek to pamper themselves, business at hair salons and day spas is soaring—and there's still plenty of ...
"The Black History of Calvert County" relates the history of people of color in Calvert County, Maryland from slavery to World War II. Includes biographical information on African American soldiers from Calvert County in World War I and II ...
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