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The only comprehensive historical study with extensive documentation from both primary and secondary sources on African American Business history, including the period since 1939 is, Juliet E. K. Walker, The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. For topics in Black business history, such as the black hair products industry the black funeral industry, sports, athlete enterprises and entrepreneurs, set-asides, Nation of Islam enterprises and women business enterprises, brief biographies of entrepreneurs and an extensive black business history chronology, see Juliet E. K. Walker, Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Also see “Online Index of the Encyclopedia at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/becites/business/afro/98044218.idx.html. For detailed biographies and brief historical assessments see John N. Ingham and Lynne B. Feldman, African American Business Leaders: A Biogrpahical Dictionary. On black business history from a sociological perspective, see John Sibley Butler. Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans. Only a few specific studies on black business communities have been undertaken for the period after 1939. See David Caplovitz http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0803901488/mbnglobalminorit, St Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, The Kerner Report: The 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder, Vishnu Oak, The Negro's Adventure in General Business, Joseph A. Pierce, Negro Business and Business Education. Additional information on black business before 1944 can be found in Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma. Also the recent study by Bessie House-Soremekun, Confronting the Odds: African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland. For studies that inform on specific topic in African American business history in the period from 1939 to 2001 see the following sources.
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Walker, J.E.K. War, women, song: The tectonics of black business and entrepreneurship, 1939–2001. Rev Black Polit Econ 31, 65–116 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12114-004-1005-3
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