Black economic empowerment
Subtitle: the National Negro Business League
Contributors: Library of Congress
Series: Archives unbound; Archives unbound
Publisher: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 15779
Subjects: Archives; African Americans; Sources; Economic conditions; African American businesspeople; History; Social conditions; National Negro Business League (U.S.)
Other titles: National Negro Business League
Description: Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900 he established the League "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro" and headed it until his death.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1901-1928.

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