Black History - Dreams of Enterprise

DateJanuary 21 1988

Can DescriptionsMaster Black History X4614 Dreams of Enterprise Rec. 1/21/88 Air. 2/1/88 The Gift Sheet of paper taped to can notes 2nd show on reel 2/16/88

AbstractSlate: “Black History Dreams of Enterprise VT: X-4614 Air: 3/01/88 Producer: Nurse NOTE: Second Show on reel" Louis Gossett hosts an episode about the history of Black entrepreneurship. Harvard African-American Studies Professor Nathan Huggins comments throughout. Dr. Marjorie Joyner (Director Madam C.J. Walker Co.), Hon. Parren Mitchell (Minority Business Enterprise Legal and Educational Fund), Ronald A. Homer (C.E.O. President Boston Bank of Commerce), and Nancy Flake (Director of Small Business Development Center at Howard University) also interviewed. Program touches on Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (fur trader who founded Chicago); Black entrepreneurs who help to fund the abolitionist movement; Denmark Vesey; Benjamin "Pap" Singleton ; Black businessmen in Oklahoma; Booker T Washington and the National Negro Business League; Jim Crow and the Klu Klux Klan attack on black business; Black business districts in the north; Greenwood Business district in Tulsa OK and the ; Marcus Garvey; Madam C.J. Walker; Black insurance companies and department stores; Next phase of Civil Rights Movement is economic empowerment Black breaks for commercials

OtherCredits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Hosted by Louis Gossett, Jr.; Written by Steve Hemingway; Researched by Lillian Baldwin, Erika Mobley; Additional Writing: Karl Nurse, Barbara Brown; Assistant to the Producer: Monique Walker; Photography by Howard Rouse, Dick Dunham, Robert Oliver; Sound Recordists: Doug Dike, Gretchen Soehner, Robert Hakkila; Editor: Jeff Brawer; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, Lisa Borge, George Ellard, Dave Teixeira; Graphics: Yu-Ling Wang; Photograph Collections: Moorland Springarn Research Center; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Library of Congress, National Archives, DuSable Museum of Afro-American History; Carl Van Vechton collection Joseph Solomon, Director, Boston Public Library; Vice President of Community Programming: Donna Latson-Gittens; Vice President of Programming: Paul LaCamera