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Author Weems, Robert E., 1951- author.

Title Business in black and white : American presidents & Black entrepreneurs in the twentieth century / Robert E. Weems Jr. ; with Lewis A. Randolph.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2009]
2009

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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?
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject United States. Department of Commerce -- History -- 20th century.
African American businesspeople -- History -- 20th century.
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Presidents -- United States -- Racial attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1919-1933.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Randolph, Lewis A., contributor.
Other Form: Print version: Weems, Robert E. Business in black and white : American presidents & Black entrepreneurs in the twentieth century. New York : New York University Press, [2009] x, 313 pages ; 24 cm 9780814775172 (OCoLC)ocn227930961
ISBN 9780814775172 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814775179 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814789063 (e-book)

 
    
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