TY - GEN AB - 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. CN - Gale Archives Unbound CN - HD2425 CY - Farmington Hills, Mich. : DA - 2011. ID - 813117 KW - African Americans KW - African American businesspeople KW - African Americans LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/gdsc/i.do?id=4LKS&v=2.1&u=usi&it=aboutCollections&p=GDSC&sw=w N1 - Date range of documents: 1901-1928. N1 - Reproduction of the originals from the Library of Congress. N2 - 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. PB - Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, PP - Farmington Hills, Mich. : PY - 2011. T1 - Black economic empowerment :the National Negro Business League. TI - Black economic empowerment :the National Negro Business League. UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/gdsc/i.do?id=4LKS&v=2.1&u=usi&it=aboutCollections&p=GDSC&sw=w ER -