The origins of the Commerce Department's Division of Negro Affairs, 1925-1940 -- Emmer Lancaster and the ascendancy and fall of the Commerce Department's Division of Negro Affairs, 1940-1960 -- More than civil rights : the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and African American enterprise -- The Democratic Party and Black capitalism during the presidential election of 1968 -- Nixon and the "militants" : the GOP and Black capitalism during the presidential election of 1968 -- The national response to Richard M. Nixon's Black capitalism initiative -- The Ford administration and Black capitalism -- The Carter administration and African American enterprise -- Epilogue: Whatever happened to Black capitalism?