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• Afro-Americans in business
• Businesspeople, African American
• Negro businessmen
• Negroes as businessmen

• 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; US access only)
• 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)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• The Negro in business. (AMS Press, 1971), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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)

• 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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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)

• 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)

• 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; US access only)

• 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; US access only)

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• American businessmen and international trade; code book and data from a study on attitudes and communications. Study directed by Raymond A. Bauer and Ithiel de Sola Pool. Survey designed and directed by Eli S. Marks and Herbert Hyman. (Free Press, 1960), by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies and Raymond Augustine Bauer (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 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. Congress. 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)
• Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity, by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg ebook)

• Abuses of corporate power hearings before the Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, first and second sessions ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government (page images at HathiTrust)

• Whippen. (Small, Maynard, 1912), by Frederick Orin Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seeds of commerce helping others foster economic growth (Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1997., 1997), by John C. O'Conor and United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Management and Organization (page images at HathiTrust)

• Socio-economic analysis of Asian American business patterns : a study (Office of Minority Business Enterprise, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1977), by Amsun Associates and United States. Office of Minority Business Enterprise (page images at HathiTrust)

• Solution to the international child labor problem (The Dept., 1996), by United States. Bureau of International Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• It's legal but it ain't right : harmful social consequences of legal industries (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Neva R Goodwin and Nikos Passas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perspectives on improving corporate responsibility and consumer protections : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 18, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self regulation of franchising (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Southland Corporation investigation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on John Fedders' involvement in the internal business ethics review conducted by the Southland Corporation, while outside counsel to the Southland Corporation, June 28, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by Housing United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oath taking, truth telling, and remedies in the business world : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 26, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by Trade United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corporate and industrial espionage and their effects on American competitiveness : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 13, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commercial Bribery : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty- Ninth Congress, second session, on Dec. 13, 1926. (U.S. G.P.O., 1926), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nomination of Glenn L. Emmons : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on July 15, 28, 1953. (U.S. G.P.O., 1953), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Construction Contract Act : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Legislation, and House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 5 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on Apr. 14, 1953. (U.S. G.P.O., 1953), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Promoting global Internet freedom : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, December 8, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by Global Health United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)

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