Abstract

Gone but not Forgotten: Female Pioneers in Black Entrepreneurship

Highlights

  • What can we tell today’s black female entrepreneurs about the struggles and hard work of black female entrepreneurs who predate them? Many, often untold stories of success

  • Region, educational status, marital status, and family size have had on their business pursuits?

  • Who were historical black female entrepreneurs and what identifiers and characteristics describe her? Narratives/storytelling reflect that Brown, Bannister, Goode, and Walker, all born before the end of the Civil War, can be profiled using a historical time frame of activities in the nineteenth and early twentieth century; industries of entrepreneurship, which include: owners of laundering businesses, beauty salons, furniture stores, banks, stores, and newspapers; geographic location/region-from Boston down to Virginia, and over to Chicago and Colorado; and a

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Introduction

What can we tell today’s black female entrepreneurs about the struggles and hard work of black female entrepreneurs who predate them? Many, often untold stories of success. For the purposes of this study, I focused on four historical black female entrepreneurs. Who were historical black female entrepreneurs and how to develop identifiers/characteristics for a profile, b.

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