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03354aam a22004934i 4500 001 8D2AAF380BD411E8B276BF0197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 170515t20182018nyuaf e b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 0062437593 020 $a 9780062437594 035 $a (OCoLC)986977379 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ZQP $d GIP $d VAX $d ZJI $d ON8 $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 14 $a 973.0496 WIL 100 1 $a Wills, Shomari, $e author. 245 10 $a Black fortunes : $b the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires / $c Shomari Wills. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2018] 300 $a xv, 300 pages, [8] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index. 505 0 $a The first black millionaire -- Abolitionism and capitalism -- King Cotton's bastard -- Funding the insurrection -- Robert Reed Church and the Civil War -- The near lynching of a millionaire -- Forty acres deferred -- Bob Church vs Jim Crow -- Mother of civil rights in California -- Saint or sinner? -- Building the promised land in Oklahoma -- Founding the black hair industry -- Black Cleopatra -- Las days of Mary Ellen Pleasant -- The most powerful black man alive -- "Black Wall Street" rises -- Battle for hair supremacy -- The trials of Hannah Elias -- Black millionaire legacy -- End of the promise -- Paris by way of Harlem. 520 $a "The astonishing untold history of Americas first black millionairesformer slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twentiesself-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, BeyoncÌ, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied one percent. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success."-- provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African American businesspeople $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American businesspeople $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Success in business $z United States $v Case studies. 941 $a 15 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626020041.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014515.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409030922.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104015005.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012023206.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013434.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073409.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502030102.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20190418011053.0 952 $l SDPB094 $d 20190218121200.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010010937.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20180802011539.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20180727012013.0 952 $l ELPC715 $d 20180612162813.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180207010119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D2AAF380BD411E8B276BF0197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search