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Black Business in the Black Metropolis : The Chicago Metropolitan

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Publication Name
Indiana University Press
ISBN
9780253330253

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253330254
ISBN-13
9780253330253
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112137

Product Key Features

Book Title
Black Business in the Black Metropolis : the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985
Number of Pages
188 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic Conditions, Penology, Insurance / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics
Author
Robert E. Weems, Robert E. Weems Jr.
Book Series
Blacks in the Diaspo Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-023294
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
365/.06/577311
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Metropolitan Funeral System Association, 1925-1946II. The Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company of Chicago, 1947-1952III. The Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company, 1953-1957IV. The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company as an African American Community Institution, 1927-1957V. The Chicago Metropolitan ÒFamily,Ó 1927-1957VI. Chicago Metropolitan, 1958-1985VII. EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexIllustrations follow page 76.
Synopsis
The discriminatory lending practices of white-controlled banks often inspired pioneering Black businesses such as Chicago Met to raise operating and investment capital from less conventional sources such as gambling winnings. These companies were critical to economic development within Black communities. By providing white-collar jobs to men and women who were otherwise denied access to such opportunities, and by helping to create a Black bourgeois class and culture. Black businesses exemplified self-help ideology and nationalist inclinations in Black working-class communities of the urban North., ÒReaders in African American history as well as American business history will find this study interesting, informative, and useful for the insights provided on the makings of a northern black business enterprise.ÓÑJuliet E. K. WalkerExamining the evolution of a prominent Chicago insurance company, the author provides a rare glimpse into the origins and operations of an African American business. The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company was founded in 1925 to provide burial insurance to working-class black Chicagoans. Over the next 60 years, however, the company expanded to serve African-Americans throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri.Discriminatory lending practices by white-controlled banks often inspired pioneering black businesses such as Chicago Met to raise operating and investment capital through creative meansÑsuch as gambling. These companies were crucial to economic development within black communities. They provided white-collar jobs to men and women otherwise denied access to such opportunities and helped create a black bourgeois class and culture. They exemplified black self-help ideology and nationalist inclinations in black working-class communities of the urban North.
LC Classification Number
HG8538.M53W43 1996

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