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Collective courage : a history of African American cooperative economic thought and practice / Jessica Gordon Nembhard.

by Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1956-

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The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

Blacks -- Economic conditions

Cooperative societies -- United States -- History.

Cooperation -- United States -- History.

9780271062167 (cloth ;

0271062169 (cloth ;

9780271062174 (pbk.)

0271062177 (pbk.)

xii, 311 p. ; 25 cm.

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 Helen 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.

"Chronicles the achievements and challenges of African American collective economic action and social entrepreneurship in the struggle for civil rights and economic equality"--Publisher.

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