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Second Place in Nonfiction – Business – Industries – BookFest Book Awards: https://www.thebookfest.com/award_entries/the-black-wall-streets-of-america-towards-a-black-stock-exchange/
From the streets of Greenwood to the vision of a Black Stock Exchange — a blueprint for building generational wealth in Black America.
The Black Wall Streets of America: Towards a Black Stock Exchange uncovers the remarkable history of African American economic empowerment, from thriving Black business districts like Tulsa’s Greenwood District to the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled Black Wall Street and similar communities nationwide.
Blending history, economics, and vision, this book explores how African American entrepreneurs built wealth despite systemic racism, and how these lessons can inspire a new era of cooperative economics, Black-owned businesses, and a truly Black-led financial marketplace. Whether you’re interested in the legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre, African American finance, or strategies for building Black wealth today, this book provides both historical insight and actionable ideas.
Black Wall Streets of America: Towards a Black Stock Exchange is a groundbreaking blueprint for building, sustaining, and scaling Black economic power in the 21st century. Blending historical insight with forward-looking strategies, this book draws from the successes of Greenwood, Hayti, Bronzeville, and other thriving Black business districts, then reimagines how these lessons can be applied in today’s globalized, technology-driven economy. It is not a hope. It is a must. It is what will be.
From Community Land Trusts and Black-led CDFIs to public procurement targets, policy guardrails, and the rise of AI-driven entrepreneurship, this book delivers a comprehensive framework for wealth creation. It explores how decentralization, rapid prototyping, and advanced manufacturing can disrupt traditional gatekeepers, allowing individuals and communities to own production, control capital, and dominate niche markets.
Readers will discover:
The historical foundations of Black prosperity—and how they were systematically dismantled.
Policy and legal frameworks that protect gains from displacement and exploitation.
How to build talent pipelines that merge STEM, the creative economy, and cooperative models.
The role of digital platforms, free markets, and globalization in creating borderless markets.
How to design a modern Black Wall Street, complete with an exchange-centered capital ecosystem.
Bold, unapologetic, and deeply practical, Black Wall Streets of America: Towards a Black Stock Exchange is both a history lesson and a call to action. It is a mandate for entrepreneurs, policymakers, and community leaders who are ready to move from survival to sovereignty—by any means necessary.
If you are ready to reimagine economic freedom, close the racial wealth gap, and build intergenerational prosperity, this is your blueprint. Anything is else is simply unacceptable.
From the Publisher
ASIN : B0FLW7VH93
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : August 9, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 202 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8297229136
Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.51 x 9 inches
Book 2 of 3 : Economics and Finance Series
Best Sellers Rank: #778,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #14 in African Philosophy #205 in Venture Capital (Books) #2,550 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
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