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Binga : the rise and fall of Chicago's first Black banker
- Title
- Binga : the rise and fall of Chicago's first Black banker / Don Hayner.
- Author
- Hayner, Don
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 298 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Second to none: Chicago stories
- Uniform Title
- Second to none: Chicago stories.
- Subject
- Binga, Jesse, 1865-1950
- Binga State Bank > History
- 1900-1999
- Bankers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- African American bankers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- African American banks > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Banks and banking > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century
- African American bankers
- African American banks
- Bankers
- Banks and banking
- Race relations
- Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Illinois > Chicago
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Do You Know Who That Is?" -- The Black Sedan -- "In the Name of the Bingas" -- City of Wonder -- World's Fair -- "Jesse C. Binga" -- "A Man of Low and Vicious Habits" -- Vernon Avenue -- The Binga Bank -- Dream Book -- Pink -- State Street -- 5922 South Park Avenue -- Distant Thunder -- "Barefooted and Bareheaded" -- Riot -- "I Will Not Run" -- Stacking Cash -- "They Seem Like One" -- Trust and Devotion -- "Your Daddy Would Not Have Said That" -- A Life Unravels -- Two White Men in Fedoras -- Blank Pieces of Paper -- "You Killed My Wife" -- Waiting and Hoping -- The Giant with a Hundred Eyes -- "The Footsteps of God" -- "Old Age and Sorrow"
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-537
- ISBN
- 9780810140905
- 081014090X
- LCCN
- 2019022944
- 40029658090
- OCLC
- 1089862592
- Author
- Hayner, Don, author.
- Title
- Binga : the rise and fall of Chicago's first Black banker / Don Hayner.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Second to none: Chicago storiesSecond to none: Chicago stories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Author's autographed copy.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029658090
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-537