History of Black Business : The Coming of America's Largest African-American Owned Businesses

Packed with information not widely available, The History of Black Business offers a panoramic view of African-American-owned business never before published. The book provides several frameworks with which to view Black business. First, the history of African-American-owned businesses before 1970 is chronicled with a plethora of success stories from before the American Revolution through Slavery and Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. The last three decades of Black business development are explained using a comprehensive growth framework of Black business competition, citing dozens of examples and success stories. The last two sections of the book reviews ten of the most fascinating African-American-owned businesses in the world, including Johnson Products, BET, Harpo, Inc., Johnson Publishing, North Carolina Mutual, TLC Beatrice and the original Motown Recording Studios. Book jacket.

Martin K. Hunt. Mr. Hunt is a Board Director and co-founder of the Knowledge Express Company. He is a Senior Corporate Strategist at Unicom Corporation and has a decade of experience in competition and strategy. His experience includes business transformation for an international consulting firm; an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business; research for strategist Michael Porter of Harvard Business School; completion of Prudential's Advanced Management Development Program; and a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College. Mr. Hunt has a lifelong dedication to, and interest in African-American business history and industrial competition and strategy. Jacqueline E. Hunt. Ms. Hunt is President and co-founder of the Knowledge Express Company. Her experience includes a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education; a BA in Biology from Southern Methodist University; teaching tenures in Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, and Randolph, NJ; as well as academic advising at the University of Chicago. Fluent in five languages and a native of Chile, Ms. Hunt led the Knowledge Express Company's Special Project on African-American History.