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Binga : the rise and fall of Chicago's first Black banker / Don Hayner.
Lippincott Library HG2463.B53 H39 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayner, Don, author.
- Series:
- Second to none: Chicago stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Binga, Jesse, 1865-1950.
- Binga, Jesse.
- Binga State Bank--History.
- Binga State Bank.
- Bankers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Bankers.
- African American bankers--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- African American bankers.
- African American banks--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- African American banks.
- Banks and banking--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Banks and banking.
- History.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Race relations.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Penned by a former editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, Binga is the definitive biography of the first black banker in Chicago as well as a history of race, politics, and finance in early twentieth-century Chicago"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Do You Know Who That Is?"
- The Black Sedan
- "In the Name of the Bingas"
- City of Wonder
- World's Fair
- "Jesse C. Binga"
- "A Man of Low and Vicious Habits"
- Vernon Avenue
- The Binga Bank
- Dream Book
- Pink
- State Street
- 5922 South Park Avenue
- Distant Thunder
- "Barefooted and Bareheaded"
- Riot
- "I Will Not Run"
- Stacking Cash
- "They Seem Like One"
- Trust and Devotion
- "Your Daddy Would Not Have Said That"
- A Life Unravels
- Two White Men in Fedoras
- Blank Pieces of Paper
- "You Killed My Wife"
- Waiting and Hoping
- The Giant with a Hundred Eyes
- "The Footsteps of God"
- "Old Age and Sorrow"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810140905
- 081014090X
- OCLC:
- 1089862592
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