AFRICAN AMERICAN WEALTH BLACK SOCIETY ELITES MONEY HISTORY 1st Ed CIVIL WAR HCDJ

  
By Gerri Major and Doris E. Published by Johnson Publishing Company Inc. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Good hardcover, in good dustjacket. Ex-Library book with usual stamps and markings, dustjackert flaps are glued to endpapers.

Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, square 4to, index, 418 pages. Answering questions about black society from the 1700s to the mid 1970's, this chronicle was written from the point of view of a woman who spent 50 years documenting the activities of the often alluded to but largely unknown class of black Americans. It describes the significant role played and contributions made by the black upper class within the historical context of the past 200 hundred years of American history.