Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
5. Introduction
6.       Prologue: The First Black Millionaire
7.   1: Abolitionism and Capitalism
8.   2: King Cotton’s Bastard
9.   3: Funding the Insurrection
10.   4: Robert Reed Church and the Civil War
11.   5: The Near Lynching of a Millionaire
12.   6: Forty Acres Deferred
13.   7: Bob Church Versus Jim Crow
14.   8: Mother of Civil Rights in California
15.   9: Saint or Sinner?
16. 10: Building the Promised Land in Oklahoma
17. 11: Founding the Black Hair Industry
18. 12: Black Cleopatra
19. 13: Last Days of Mary Ellen Pleasant
20. 14: The Most Powerful Black Man Alive
21. 15: “Black Wall Street” Rises
22. 16: Battle for Hair Supremacy
23. 17: The Trials of Hannah Elias
24. 18: Black Millionaire Legacy
25. 19: End of the Promise
26. 20: Paris by Way of Harlem
27. Epilogue
28. Acknowledgments
29. Source Notes
30. Index
31. Photos Section
32. About the Author
33. Copyright
34. About the Publisher