1941 Integrating Black-Owned Businesses into the War Economy | Statistics Concerning Black-Owned Businesses 1941
1941, African-American Service, Newsweek Magazine

Black-Owned Businesses and the War Effort
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

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Eight months before the American entry to the war, FDR’s Commerce Department Office turned its attention to the thousands of Black-owned businesses throughout the country in order to help maximize their profits and bring them into the wartime economy.