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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [MATHEMATICS]. PIERCE, Professor Joseph A. (1902-1969). Negro Business and Business Education. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1947

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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [MATHEMATICS]. PIERCE, Professor Joseph A. (1902-1969). Negro Business and Business Education. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1947]. 8vo. 338 pp. Publisher's full beige cloth, front board and spine stamped in blue, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket (both jacket flaps neatly clipped at top and bottom). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FFEP.: "12/17/47 For Arthur George With every good wish Joesph A. Pierce". 

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Light rubbing, soiling to cloth binding, endleaves and text a bit toned, light soiling to edge of text block; jacket toned, edgeworn, foxed, spine chipped and torn, light chipping to fore-edges of jacket. A very good copy in a good jacket.

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Laid-in are two pamphlets by Professor Pierce: Correction Formulas for Moments of a Grouped-Distribution of Discrete Variates (2 copies) [and:] On the Summation of Progressions Useful in Time Series Analysis. Pierce was one of the first African-Americans to earn a Ph. D. in Mathematics in the United States. Negro Business and Business Education was Pierce's landmark work, a record of his study (commissioned by Atlanta University) of African-Americans and their shopping habits at African-American-owned businesses and white-owned businesses. His study demonstrated that African-Americans spent their dollars almost exclusively at white-owned businesses. This study led Atlanta University to establish a graduate School of Business Administration, designed to help African-American business owners to compete more effectively for African-American business. 

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