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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Early Black Chicago: Entrepreneurial and Business Activities from the Frontier Era to the Great Migration: The Nexus of Circumstance and Initiative / Christopher Robert Reed
2. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868–1940 / Myiti-Sengstacke Rice
3. The Rise and Fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago Financial Wizard / Robert Howard
4. Contested Terrain: P. W. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the Founding of the Douglass National Bank / Robert E. Weems, Jr.
5. King of Selling: The Rise and Fall of S. B. Fuller / Clovis E. Semmes
6. A Master Strategist: John H. Johnson and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black Business Enterprise / Jason P. Chambers
7. Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago’s Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century / Will Cooley
8. The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago’s Black McDonald’s Operators and the Demands of Community / Marcia Chatelain
9. Positive Realism: Tom Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies / Jason P. Chambers
10. Oprah Winfrey: The Tycoon / Juliet E. K. Walker
11. Racial Desegregation and Black Chicago Business: The Case Studies of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company / Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Contributors
Index