Overcoming discrimination by consumers during the age of segregation: The example of Garrett Morgan

Business History Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-234

  Cook, Lisa D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84866412964     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: 2044768X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007680512000372     Document Type: Review

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