Binga - The Rise and Fall of Chicago''s First Black Banker

Informationen zum Autor DON HAYNER is the retired editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times . During his tenure as managing editor and editor, the Sun-Times was awarded multiple national and local awards for investigative reporting and breaking news, including the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2011. Hayner is the co-author, with Tom McNamee, of Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names , The Metro Chicago Almanac: Fascinating Facts and Offbeat Offerings about the Windy City , and The Stadium: 1929-1994, The Official Commemorative History of the Chicago Stadium . Hayner is a graduate of Ripon College and John Marshall Law School. Klappentext Penned by a former editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times , Binga is the definitive biography of the first black banker in Chicago as well as a history of race, politics, and finance in early twentieth-century Chicago. Zusammenfassung The definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the first black-owned bank in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Don Hayner
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780810140905
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-4090-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories; Second to None: Chicago Storie
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries