Download e-book for kindle: Collective Courage: A History of African American by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative company possession and its position within the hobbies for Black civil rights and financial equality. no longer due to the fact that W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation between Negro Americans has there been a full-length, national research of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that tale into the twenty-first century. a number of the gamers are popular within the heritage of the African American event: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the women' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of slumbering vehicle Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the younger Negroes’ Co-operative League, the state of Islam, and the Black Panther occasion. including the cooperative move to Black historical past ends up in a retelling of the African American adventure, with an elevated realizing of African American collective monetary organisation and grassroots fiscal organizing.

To inform the tale, Gordon Nembhard makes use of numerous newspapers, interval magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, mins from annual conferences, newsletters, budgets, and source of revenue statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. those assets display the achievements and demanding situations of Black co-ops, collective fiscal motion, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard unearths that African americans, in addition to folks of colour and low-income humans, have benefitted enormously from cooperative possession and democratic financial participation in the course of the nation’s background.