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Walker, Juliet E. K., 1940-
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338.642208996073 22
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1999
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Boston, Michael B.
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370.92
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2010
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Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to economic uplift for African Americans. The result is a revisionist book that responds to the skewed literature on Washington e.
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Lomax, Michael E., author.
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796.3570922 23
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2014
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Newman, Roberta J.
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796.35764 23
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2014
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An extraordinary history of the negro leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport.
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Luke, Bob, author.
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796.357092 22
Publication Date
2011
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From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade. ... Not only a story of Manley's influence on the baseball world, The Most Famous Woman in Baseball vividly documents her social activism. Her life played out against the backdrop of the Jim Crow years, when discrimination forced most of Newark's blacks to live in the Third Ward, where prostitution flourished, housing was among the nation's worst, and only menial jobs were available. Manley and the Eagles gave African Americans a haven, Ruppert Stadium. She also proposed reforms at the Negro leagues' team owners' meetings, marched on picket lines, sponsored charity balls and benefit games, and collected money for the NAACP.-publisher description.
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Wilson, Richard L., 1944-
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338.097303 22
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2009
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Provides works on economic history aimed at graduate students and scholars. Covers American business history and offers brief biographies of 35 individual persons who have played roles in American business.
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Marchand, Roland.
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659.285 21
Publication Date
1998
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"Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's book tells how large companies such as AT & T and U.S. Steel created their own "souls" in order to reassure consumers and politicians that their size and influence posed no threat to democracy or American values." "Marchand traces this important transformation in the culture of capitalism by offering a series of fascinating case studies of such corporate giants as General Motors, General Electric, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Du Pont Chemicals, and Ford Motors."--Jacket.
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