Biographical Information

This text offers both a wide range of individual snapshots and a diverse collective portrait of African Americans who have succeeded in business. Each A-Z entry provides basic bibliographical data as well as a further reading list, including Internet sources where appropriate.

Half-page articles on 730 men and women from the 1800 and 1900s. References included. Arranged alphabetically and indexed by subject. Includes appendixes that list people by union affiliation, religion, place of birth, formal education and political preference.

This encyclopedia contains the biographies of over 100 women, from Clara Barton to Oprah Winfrey, who come from diverse backgrounds, races, age groups, ethnicities, religious backgrounds, and geographic locations. From 1776 to the present, these women have initiated organizations; taken human, physical, and financial risk in these endeavors; and have had an economic impact locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. This, by definition, makes them entrepreneurs, the same as their male counterparts. However, many of the women have been unacknowledged by recorded history. This book, therefore, adds women's entrepreneurial stories to the historical record and provides a resource to researchers and educators in the fields of entrepreneurship, business, management, sociology, economics, and women's studies. It also will be of interest to young women--potential entrepreneurs--seeking role models for their own endeavors in the free enterprise system of the United States.

Lives of the Laureates compiles autobiographical essays by recipients of the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences who have presented lectures at Trinity University, describing the path that led them to the work honored with a Nobel.