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Collective courage

Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1956-

Collective courage a history of African American cooperative economic thought and practice / [electronic resource] : Jessica Gordon Nembhard. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early Black economic cooperation : intentional communities, communes, and mutual aid -- From economic independence to political advocacy : cooperation and the nineteenth-century Black populist movement -- Expanding the tradition : early African American owned "cooperative" businesses -- Strategy, advocacy, and practice : Black study circles and co-op education on the front lines -- The Young Negroes' Co-operative League -- Out of necessity : the great depression and "consumers' cooperation among Negroes" -- Continuing the legacy : Nannie Hele Burroughs, Halena Wilson, and the role of Black women -- Black rural cooperative activity in the early to mid-twentieth century -- The Federation of Southern Cooperatives : the legacy lives on -- Economic solidarity in the African American cooperative movement : connections, cohesiveness, and leadership development.

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Cooperation--History.--United States
Cooperative societies--History.--United States
African Americans--Economic conditions.


Electronic books.

E185.8 / .G674 2014

330.90089/96073