Enterprising Entrepreneurs tells the powerful, often-overlooked stories of 16 Black women from the Women of Color and Accomplishment series
Across three compelling sections, this book reveals how women used creativity, courage, and business skills to change their communities.
In Filling a Need, readers meet women who created businesses when doors were closed to them—publishers, bankers, designers, caregivers, and innovators who built solutions from the ground up. In Giving Back, entrepreneurship becomes a tool for community care, as wealth and success are reinvested into education, health, housing, and justice.
The final section, On the Cutting Edge, highlights women who stepped boldly into new technologies of their time, from early film to television, shaping the future before the world was ready to recognize them.
Written for students and general readers alike, Enterprising Entrepreneurs blends biography, history, and inspiration. It shows that entrepreneurship is not just about profit—it is about purpose, resilience, and lifting others along the way.
This book invites readers to rethink who builds businesses, who leads change, and how courage and vision can create opportunity where none existed before.