Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1956- author.
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
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Notes:
- Chronicles the achievements and challenges of African American collective economic action and social entrepreneurship in the struggle for civil rights and economic equality –Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Early Black economic cooperation : intentional communities, communes, and mutual aid — From economic independence to political advocacy : cooperation and the nineteenth-century Black populist movement — Expanding the tradition : early African American owned cooperative businesses — Strategy, advocacy, and practice : Black study circles and co-op education on the front lines — The Young Negroes’ Co-operative League — Out of necessity : the great depression and consumers’ cooperation among Negroes — Continuing the legacy : Nannie Helen Burroughs, Halena Wilson, and the role of Black women — Black rural cooperative activity in the early to mid-twentieth century — The Federation of Southern Cooperatives : the legacy lives on — Economic solidarity in the African American cooperative movement : connections, cohesiveness, and leadership development.
Subjects:
- African Americans — Economic conditions.
- Cooperative societies — United States — History.
- Cooperation — United States — History.
Requested by Hensley, M.