Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance CompanyDuke University Press, 1993 M01 27 - 312 pages 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, which was known as the "Black Wall Street of America," this business came to symbolize the ideas of racial progress, self-help, and solidarity in America. Walter B. Weare's social and intellectual history, originally published in 1973 (University of Illinois Press) and updated here to include a new introduction, still stands as the definitive history of black business in the New South. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including personal papers of the company's leaders and oral history interviews—Weare traces the company's story from its ideological roots in the eighteenth century to its economic success in the twentieth century. |
Contents
The Evolution of Uplift | 3 |
The Company with a Soul and a Service | 29 |
Survival and Success | 50 |
Expansion and Retreat | 103 |
That Good OP Mutual Spirit | 133 |
The Second Survival | 154 |
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Afro-American agents American April Association Atlanta August Avery black business black community black Durham Booker C. C. Spaulding church colored Columbus County cooperation DCNA death December directors Durham Durham Morning Herald economic enterprise Farmers Bank February February 22 Free African Society home office Ibid industrial institution Insurance Company interview January January 29 John Merrick July June Kennedy Papers Kennedy Scrapbook leaders legal reserve Letters from C. C. loans March Mark Fisher Mechanics and Farmers Merrick and Moore Miles Mark Fisher Mutual Life Insurance NAACP National Negro Business Negro Business League Negro in Business Negro Insurance Negro Life Insurance North Carolina Mutual November October organization pany Parrish Street policyholders political premium president race relations September Shepard social societies South Spaulding Papers Spaulding's success True Reformers Viola G W. E. B. Du Bois W. J. Kennedy Washington Wheeler Whetstone White Rock William York