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- Title
"The Hope of the South ": The New Century Cotton Mill of Dallas, Texas, and the Business of Race in the New South, 1902-190 7.
- Authors
Garrett-Scott, Shennette
- Abstract
An essay is presented which discusses the relationship between business and race relations through focusing on the New Century Cotton Mill of Dallas, Texas from 1902 to 1907. An overview of the New Century Cotton Mill, including its development by the black real estate investor Joseph Edwin Wiley Sr., its composition of all-black employees and Wiley's efforts to acquire finance for the mill, is provided.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN American business enterprises; COTTON manufacture; INDUSTRIES &; society; BUSINESS finance; WILEY, Joseph Edwin; 20TH century history of race relations in the United States; TWENTIETH century; AFRICAN American history; HISTORY
- Publication
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2012, Issue 116, p138
- ISSN
0038-478X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/swh.2012.0100