Dr. Maya Rockeymoore. Willie Lynch -- King Cotton -- Paul Cuffee -- Gil Sage Salvo Perkins -- Black codes -- Nat Turner -- Trevor Brooks -- Civil war -- Sojourner Truth -- Carita Marrow -- Emancipation proclamation -- Harriet Tubman -- Erin Horne McKinney -- Sharecropper economics -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Thomas Nida -- Freemen's Bank -- Frederick Douglass -- Rodney Williams -- The great migration -- Booker T. Washington -- Dawn Dickson -- Convict leasing -- Ellen and William Craft -- Frederick Hutson -- Black Wall Street -- O. W. Gurley -- Bjorn BK Simmons -- Kingman Park -- Madam CJ Walker -- Natalie Cofield -- Little Rock 9 -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Stacie Whisonant -- Banking black -- Congressman Ron Dellums -- Dominique Broadway -- Reparations -- Congressman John Conyers -- Jason Green -- Black billionaires -- Oprah Winfrey -- DeShauna Moore Spencer -- The great recession -- Congresswoman Maxine Waters -- Michael Kevin Floyd -- The black financial experience -- Aaron Saunders -- Stephanie Lampkin -- Black lives matter -- Congressman Elijah Cummings -- Victor Lombard -- Closing the racial wealth gap -- Dr. Maya Rockeymoore.
Summary:
"Rich reveals significant economic moments in history that have helped shape America--slavery, sharecropping, convict leasing, the Little Rock Nine, Black Wall Street, Civil Rights, The Great Recession, Black Lives Matter, and several other milestones. The book highlights important figures--some renowned, and some lesser known; that have made these black historical moments possible through their personal, diligent efforts."--Page [4] of cover.
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