@article{813117, recid = {813117}, title = {Black economic empowerment : the National Negro Business League.}, publisher = {Gale, a part of Cengage Learning,}, address = {Farmington Hills, Mich. :}, pages = {1 online resource.}, year = {2011}, note = {Date range of documents: 1901-1928.}, abstract = {Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900 he established the League "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro" and headed it until his death.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/813117}, }