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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.

Earl Graves has written a book that is guaranteed to inspire and motivate - whether you are an executive, a manager, a professional, or an entrepreneur. In it you will find the secrets of his incredible success as well as a blueprint for your own. Drawing on lessons from his struggle to launch Black Enterprise - and other business ventures - Graves offers his savvy advice for finding your first job, succeeding in a corporate position, starting your...

"In stark contrast to popular belief, women of the African Diaspora have engaged in economic and leadership activities throughout the course of history. Black women around the world draw from a tradition of thousands of years of strategies that have enabled them to face and conquer the challenges of life as women of color. And yet today, black women are marginalized by an economic and financial community still dominated by white men. In Market Women,...

Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire...

This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but among blacks as well. Key factors discussed here include the persistence of urban poverty, economic opportunities and changes in family structure.