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- Title
"A Commercial Emancipation" for the Negro: Financing Black Business in the 1920s.
- Authors
Garrett-Scott, Shennette
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of commercial liberation for the African Americans particularly in the field of business and finance in the U.S. in the 1920s. Topics covered include plans for the National Negro Finance Corporation's launch into the financial world, the origin of African American-owned the Allied Industrial Finance Corp., and the role of African American journalist Emmet J. Scott in the liberation of African American businesses and investors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN American history, 1877-1964; FINANCE; AFRICAN American business enterprises; SCOTT, Emmet; AFRICAN American social conditions; HISTORY of finance
- Publication
Financial History, 2019, Issue 130, p20
- ISSN
1520-4723
- Publication type
Article