Business in black and white : American presidents & Black entrepreneurs in the twentieth century / Robert E. Weems Jr. ; with Lewis A. Randolph.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2009.Description: x, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780814775172 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814775179 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
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- AC HD 2358.5 .U6W44 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-296) and index.
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?
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