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The Black Entrepreneur in Lawrence, Kansas 1900-1915
Zavelo, Don B.
Zavelo, Don B.
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Beginning in the late 1880's and continuing into the early 1900's, there was a remarkable development of Negro-owned and operated businesses throughout the United States. The rising philosophy of self-help and racial solidarity, the gradual urbanization of the American Negro, and an increasing degree of racial discrimination within the entrepreneurial sector created an atmosphere conducive to the formation of businesses based upon a Negro market. Large black metropolitan areas boasted a complex group economy which oftentimes featured banks, insurance companies and real estate agencies.
During this period Lawrence, Kansas also experienced a growth in its black entrepreneurial community. A small Negro population isolated in a relatively small Midwestern town presented the aspiring businessman with a very challenging milieu in which to operate. The result was a collage of black entrepreneurs; a heterogeneous group with so much and yet so little in common.
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Submitted to the Department of American Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors
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1975-05-01
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Department of American Studies, University of Kansas