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A “Body of Business Makers”: The Detroit Housewives League, Black Women Entrepreneurs, and the Rise of Detroit’s African American Business Community

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Abstract

This article examines the Detroit Housewives League (DHL) in the 1930s and 1940s, concentrating on DHL members’ actions as businesswomen. Past narratives have framed the DHL as an extension of the black women’s club movement or as part of the women-driven consumer movements of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly highlighting the organization’s philosophies on black women’s purchasing power. I argue that entrepreneurial DHL women brought prior business knowledge to their organizing and were significant business experts and leaders. By conducting business research, forging community networks, and, significantly, establishing commercial colleges and other forms of business education in the city, DHL members’ work was vital for the black business community as a whole and for women entrepreneurs in particular. In reframing the DHL as an organization established by black entrepreneurial women, I suggest scholars should reevaluate black women’s contributions to other forms of activism in order to recover additional histories of black women’s entrepreneurship and business leadership.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 164 - 205
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference

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The author thanks Mia Bay, Jesse Bayker, Miya Carey, Alix Genter, Deborah Gray White, Jasmin Young, and the anonymous reviewers who offered insightful comments.

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Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
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Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. New York: Twayne, 1998.Google Scholar
Murphy, Mary-Elizabeth B. Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parker, Traci. Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ponders, Phyllis Lewis, and Harris, Marjorie Lewis. On Her Own Terms: A Biographical Conversation about Mommie “T. V.” Violet Temple Harrison Lewis. Edited by Anderson, Pamela June. Detroit: Harlo Printing, 2001.Google Scholar
Sharpless, Rebecca. Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Shockley, Megan Taylor. “We, Too, Are Americans”: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–54. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.Google Scholar
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CrisisGoogle Scholar
Detroit Free PressGoogle Scholar
Detroit NewsGoogle Scholar
Detroit TribuneGoogle Scholar
Indianapolis RecorderGoogle Scholar
Mt. Vernon (IL) Register-NewsGoogle Scholar
New York AgeGoogle Scholar
Pittsburgh CourierGoogle Scholar
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Second Baptist Church (Detroit, Mich.) Records. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.Google Scholar
Archives of Michigan, LansingGoogle Scholar
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann ArborGoogle Scholar
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public LibraryGoogle Scholar
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, DetroitGoogle Scholar