Title: Black economic empowerment
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.
Subjects: Archives, African Americans, Sources, Economic conditions, African American businesspeople, History, Social conditions, National Negro Business League (U.S.)
People: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Time periods: To 1964