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Collective courage : a history of African American cooperative economic thought and practice / Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooperation--United States--History.
- Cooperation.
- Cooperative societies--United States--History.
- Cooperative societies.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Chronicles the achievements and challenges of African American collective economic action and social entrepreneurship in the struggle for civil rights and economic equality"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Early Black economic cooperation : intentional communities, communes, and mutual aid
- From economic independence to political advocacy : cooperation and the nineteenth-century Black populist movement
- Expanding the tradition : early African American owned "cooperative" businesses
- Strategy, advocacy, and practice : Black study circles and co-op education on the front lines
- The Young Negroes' Co-operative League
- Out of necessity : the great depression and "consumers' cooperation among Negroes"
- Continuing the legacy : Nannie Hele Burroughs, Halena Wilson, and the role of Black women
- Black rural cooperative activity in the early to mid-twentieth century
- The Federation of Southern Cooperatives : the legacy lives on
- Economic solidarity in the African American cooperative movement : connections, cohesiveness, and leadership development.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271064550
- 0271064552
- 9780271064260
- 0271064269
- OCLC:
- 881300585
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