By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Dustin Chambers for The New York Times Morehouse College is committed to expanding opportunity and prosperity for underrepresented communities. Faculty from the HBCU’s Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership (AYCGL) program has been teaching humanities courses to men and women in Georgia prisons and rehabilitation programs since 2020. The goal […]
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Join the Keller Center in welcoming Dr. Keith Hollingsworth from Morehouse College. His lecture is part of our initiative to examine the history and legacy of Black entrepreneurship in the United States.
Legitimacy, in a generally operative sense, suggests that a new organization or venture “belongs”, or fits within the social construct of its time period. To be legitimate, an organization must be accepted by the majority of evaluators within its social sphere. Historically and to the present day, Black businesses have had to work harder to earn this legitimacy. Du Bois said “Naturally business, of all vocations, was furthest removed from slavery”. [1] Black businesses had to prove themselves, not only to the majority community but to the Black community as well. Dr. Hollingsworth will discuss numerous ways Black businesses worked to accomplish this using historical examples and in the present day.
[1] Du Bois, W.E.B. (1899), “The Negro In Business: report of a social study