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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817246003321

Autore

Boston Michael B

Titolo

The business strategy of Booker T. Washington : its development and implementation / / Michael B. Boston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2010

ISBN

0-8130-3819-7

0-8130-4319-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

370.92

Soggetti

African American business enterprises - History

African American leadership - History

African Americans - Economic conditions

African American businesspeople

Entrepreneurship - United States

Success in business - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The setting that shaped Booker T. Washington's entrepreneurial philosophy -- Key influences that helped to mold and develop Washington's entrepreneurial ideas -- The entrepreneurial ideas of Booker T. Washington -- The Negro Farmer's Conference : helping those near and far -- The National Negro Business League : a history and analysis -- Fundraising, management, and industrial education : Booker T. Washington as a business executive and promoter of the Tuskegee spirit -- Washington's broad economic influence on African-American life and history -- Conclusion: Booker T. Washington, a shrewd strategist.

Sommario/riassunto

Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices.  More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to



economic uplift for African Americans.  The result is a revisionist book that responds to the skewed literature on