Lending a Hand

Black Business Owners’ Complex Role in the Civil Rights Movement

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ID12680428
AuthorsLouis A Ferleger (corresponding author), Matthew Lavallee
Year2020
Volume21
Issue2
Pages494-515
Publication date2020-02-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnterprise & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1467-2227 • E-ISSN: 1467-2235
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/eso.2019.38
OpenAlexW3007275971
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

This article explores the powerful ways in which black business owners supported the Civil Rights movement. Business owners such as Leah Chase, Gus Courts, A. G. Gaston, and Amzie Moore, among others, contributed resources and organizational skills to the fight for racial justice. But the relationship between business owners and activists within the movement was at times characterized by tension. Although business owners sometimes found the approach of activists to be too radical and activists sometimes found the business owners’ approach to be too conservative, they found ways to compromise in order to work cooperatively toward racial justice

Business · Civil rights · Compromise · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Movement (music · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · American History and Culture · Engineering · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Finance

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