Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company

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At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was the “world’s largest Negro business.” Situated in Durham, North Carolina, which used to be referred to as the “Black Wall Street of The us,” this business came to symbolize the ideas of racial progress, self-assist, and solidarity in The us. Walter B. Weare’s social and intellectual history, at the beginning published in 1973 (University of Illinois Press) and up to date here to include a new introduction, still stands as the definitive history of black business within the New South. Drawing on quite a lot of sources—including personal papers of the company’s leaders and oral history interviews—Weare traces the company’s story from its ideological roots within the eighteenth century to its economic success within the twentieth century.
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