Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii PART I FOUNDATIONS OF EXCELLENCE: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR FROM SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT CHAPTER 1 Entrepreneurship as a Key Factor in the Black Quest for Economic Parity 3 CHAPTER 2 The Black Economic Journey from the 1600s to the Civil War 45 CHAPTER 3 The Reconstruction Era: 1867–1877 61 CHAPTER 4 Government-Imposed Segregation: Jim Crow Dances with the U.S. Supreme Court 71 CHAPTER 5 Black Economic Enclaves under Government-Imposed Segregation and a 21st Century Comparison 83 CONTENTS
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