Charles Ellison looks at cities not usually known for the success of their African American entrepreneurs and talked to Dr. Maya Rockeymoore about the possible source of that success:
Of course, don’t rush to broad-brush the South as a black-entrepreneur mountaintop. It just means that a number of demographic, political and economic factors conspire to drive this reality. A long history of survival in the South shows that small-business ownership is, many times, the only recourse. “There is a stronger tradition of black business ownership and patronage in the South due to the legacy of Jim Crow economic segregation,” Global Policy Solutions’ Maya Rockeymoore told The Root.
