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• From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond; The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance (Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917), by Dan. A. Rudd and Theo. Bond, contrib. by James Carroll Napier
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• Pennsylvania Negro business directory, 1910 : industrial and material growth of the Negroes of Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg, Pa. : Jas. H. W. Howard & Son, [1910], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Negroes in the field of business (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1962), by D.C.) National Conference on Small Business (1961 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro in business (Boston, Chicago : Hertel, Jenkins & co., [1907], 1907), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in American business; the conflict between separatism and integration (Greenberg, 1950), by Robert H. Kinzer and Edward Sagarin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The setting for Black business development: a study in sociology and political economy (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1973), by Roy F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mister Barney Ford : a portrait in bistre (Denver : Sage Books, [1963], 1963), by Forbes Parkhill and Larry Dingman Western Fiction Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business enterprises of Negroes in Tennessee ([Nashville], 1961), by Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University and Louis H. Schuster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black capitalism : duality and development prospects (University of Wisconsin, 1973), by Timothy Mason Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loan default among black entrepreneurs forming new central city businesses (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 1975), by William Bradford and Timothy Mason Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in business. (AMS Press, 1971), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro business and business education, their present and prospective development. (Harper, 1947), by Joseph A. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progression of the race in the United States and Canada; treating of the great advancement of the colored race (Atwell Printing and Binding Co., 1907), by D. D. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal minority enterprise program : hearings ... Ninety-first Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in business (Moore Publishing and Printing, 1906), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The urban Negro in the South. (Vantage Press, 1961), by Wilmoth Annette Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Financial institutions and the urban crisis : hearings before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, second session, on private investment in the inner city. September 30, and October 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1968. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro at work in New York City : a study in economic progress (AMS Press, 1968), by George Edmund Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a business man (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1929), by inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Carter Godwin Woodson, Arnett Grant Lindsay, and John H. Harmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro chambers of commerce (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1936), by Joseph Roosevelt Houchins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in business. (AMS Press, 1971), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro's adventure in the field of life insurance (Dept. of Research and Review, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1937), by W. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress, by George Edmund Haynes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bulletin (Bureau of the Census., in the 1930s), by United States Bureau of the Census, United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Negro Affairs Division, and United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Negro in Business: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together With the Proceedings of the Fourth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 30-31, 1899 (Atlanta University Publications #4; Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1899), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official souvenir program (illustrated) : sixteenth convention of the National Negro Business League, Dr. Booker T. Washington, President : August 18th, 19th, 20th, 1915 : with a brief history of Negro business and professional men of Boston from 1846 to 1915, and other facts of the race. (Boston : Boston Negro Business League, [1915], 1915), by Mass.) National Negro Business League (U.S.). Convention 1915 : Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official souvenir, National Negro Business League ([Baltimore?] : [National Negro Business League], [1908], 1908), by Md.) National Negro Business League (U.S.). Convention 1908 : Baltimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in business; report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University, together with the proceedings of the fourth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 30-31, 1899. (AMS Press, 1971), by W. E. B. Du Bois and Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (4th : 1899 : Atlanta University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simms ̓blue book and national Negro business and professional directory. (James N. Simms, 1923), by James N. Simms (page images at HathiTrust)

• Directory and valuable information of the Negro business and professional men and women of Boston and vicinity. ([Boston, Mass.] : [The Author?], 1914., 1914), by Elmira Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pennsylvania Negro business directory, 1910 : industrial and material growth of the Negroes of Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg, Pa. : Jas. H. W. Howard & Son, [1910], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chicago negro business men and women and where they are located (Flanders printing co., 1912), by Lucius William Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Official souvenir program (illustrated) : sixteenth convention of the National Negro Business League, Dr. Booker T. Washington, President : August 18th, 19th, 20th, 1915 : with a brief history of Negro business and professional men of Boston from 1846 to 1915, and other facts of the race. (Boston : Boston Negro Business League, [1915], 1915), by Mass.) National Negro Business League (U.S.). Convention 1915 : Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The Black business community : survival or failure, a positive approach for minority economic development (Ethnic Studies Division, Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University, 1975), by Richard Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early history of negroes in business in Philadelphia : read before the American Negro Historical Society, March, 1913 ([Philadelphia] : [Historical Society of Pennsylvania], [1913?], 1913), by Henry M. Minton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Negroes in business (Howard University Press, 1914), by Howard University. Commercial College (page images at HathiTrust)

• Retail business, Negroes in the United States, 1920-32. (U.S. G.P.O., 1934), by Zellmer Roswell Pettet and United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black women business owners. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1989), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by John D. Haeger (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Merchants of Deception (online edition; originally published 2004), by Eric Scheibeler (PDF with commentary at transgallaxys.com)
• Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity (Forest Hills, NY: E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Henry J. Heinz; a biography (New York : B. Orr press, 1923., 1923), by E. D. McCafferty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Clay Frick, the man (s.n.], 1936), by George Brinton McClellan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of small business (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States House Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Chauncey Jerome (F.C. Dayton, 1860), by Chauncey Jerome, Lockwood Barr, and Wiley & Turner Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elämäni ja työni (in Finnish), by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Henry Ford's own story ; how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity, as told to Rose Wilder Lane. (E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences (Vestal Printing Company, 1908), by Emory Fiske Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fugō jikken kyōkun (Jitsugyō no Nihonsha, 1907), by J. Ewing Ritchie and Baisho Yamazaki (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1918?], 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man, John D. Spreckels (Press of Frye & Smith, 1924), by H. Austin Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar. (Privately published for the author by Schwabacher-Frey, 1927), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar. (Privately printed for the author [by Bruce Brough Press], 1925), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of business (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by William Osborn Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years' residence in America; or, The doctrine of a particular providence exemplified in the life of Grant Thorburn, seedsman, New York. (Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf; [etc, etc.], 1834), by Grant Thorburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam, William Leverett Chase. (s.n., 1896), by William Leverett Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memory of Arthur William Soper, 1838-1901. (Browning?, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. Frederick H. Churchill ([New Britain, Conn.?, 1881), by Annie Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lamb's textile industries of the United States : embracing biographical sketches of prominent men and a historical resume of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time (James H. Lamb, 1916), by E. Everton Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and Vermont railroads and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the History of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota. ([s.n.], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and achievements of Jay Gould, the wizard of Wall Street being a complete and graphic account of the greatest financier of modern times ; his early life and struggles; bold ventures and brilliant successes; wonderful career as a speculator and railroad king; vast operations in Wall Street; his immense fortune accumulated in a few years : a remarkable story abounding in fascinating incidents, thrilling episodes, and marvelous achievements (R.A.H. Morrow, 1892), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Howe McElwain, 1867-1908 (Priv. print., 1917), by Henry Greenleaf Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Set and spring your own net or traps. Results of combinations of experiences of John Tyler Hicks ... (J.T. Hicks, 1904), by John Tyler Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous leaders of industry. Second series. Young men who have succeeded. With an index. Illustrated. (Page Company, 1934), by Edwin Wildman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Robert Dollar : December, 1917 (Privately published for the author by W. S. Van Cott, 1917), by Robert Dollar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of Colonel Richard Lathers, 1841-1902. (Lippincott, 1902), by Richard Lathers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth (J.C. Yorston, 1893), by Trumbull White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence : with a brief account of some incidents in his life (D. Lothrop, 1855), by Amos Lawrence and William R. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould, by Trumbull White (Gutenberg ebook)

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