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Civil Rights and Discrimination

St. John's University School of Law

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2010

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African-American Entrepreneurs: Integration, Education, And Exclusion, Cheryl L. Wade Jan 2010

African-American Entrepreneurs: Integration, Education, And Exclusion, Cheryl L. Wade

Faculty Publications

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In this Article, I describe some of the subtle, obscure, and hidden challenges that African-American entrepreneurs face by providing the narratives of three African-American businesspeople. Two of the narratives are about African Americans who started businesses in the first half of the twentieth century. Theirs is a success story. Their businesses thrived. Yet, for a variety of reasons, the success these two entrepreneurs enjoyed would be unlikely today, even with the legislation and policy initiatives enacted in the latter half of the twentieth century and aimed at providing access to opportunities for people of color. The third narrative is …