At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North Carolina, whi

At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North Carolina, whi

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickn

The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely igno

Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement—distinct from the white Populist movement—in the South and parts of