Black Entrepreneurship: Building the Foundation for Freedom a Lecture by Dr

2000 West University Street,Siloam Springs AR 72761

01 February, 2023

Description

In this talk Marcus will discuss the efforts by black business men and women, entrepreneurs, mutual aid societies, and voluntary organizations in creating networks of black Americans who contributed to the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He will argue that without entrepreneurship and civil society it is unlikely that the CRM would have been successful. Also, discuss ing the efforts of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Madam C.J. Walker, The National Negroe Business League, the NAACP, the Black Elks, John Johnson, TRM Howard, and others in this talk. It is largely taken from chapter six of his book, "Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America". Marcus M. Witcher is an Assistant Professor of History at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his BA from the University of Central Arkansas in 2011, an MA from the University of Alabama in 2013, and completed his Ph.D. in history from UA in 2017. His first book Getting Right with Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980-2016 was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2019. Dr. Witcher is also the co-editor of four edited collections and has been published in a diverse range of publications including: Reason Magazine, National Review, Modern Age, and the Washington Post. His most recent book, Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America was co-authored with Rachel Ferguson and was published by Emancipation Books in May of 2022.