Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires Book cover type:Paperback A way to serve

A way to serve

this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother

progress is always possible

But each book has two stories – the tale the words tell

Angélica falls in love with this musical instrument

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires Book cover type:Paperback A way to serveBy telling the little known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new