Positive Realism: Tom Burrell and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black-Owned Advertising Agencies / Jason P. The Politics of the Drive-Thru Window: Chicago’s Black McDonald’s Operators and the Demands of Community / Marcia Chatelain. Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago’s Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century / Will Cooley. Johnson and the Development of Chicago as a Center for Black Business Enterprise / Jason P. Chavers, Anthony Overton, and the Founding of the Douglass National Bank / Robert E.
The Rise and Fall of Jesse Binga, a Black Chicago Financial Wizard / Robert Howard. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1868–1940 / Myiti-Sengstacke Rice. Early Black Chicago: Entrepreneurial and Business Activities from the Frontier Era to the Great Migration: The Nexus of Circumstance and Initiative / Christopher Robert Reed. Revealing and panoramic, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times.Table of contents : Cover. Overton went on to become the first African American to head a major business conglomerate, only to lose significant parts of his businesses-and his public persona as ”the merchant prince of his race”-in the Depression, before rebounding once again in the early 1940s. There, Overton started a popular magazine aimed at African American women that helped him dramatically grow his cosmetics firm. Washington, through early failures, to a fateful move to Chicago in 1911. Dispelling stubborn myths, he traces Overton's rise from mentorship by Booker T. restores Overton to his rightful place in American business history. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century.
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