Journal of Negro Business

In the 1930s, the New Orleans Negro Board of Trade was formed by Black business owners of the Dryades Street corridor. Patterned on the National Negro Business League, the Board of Trade sought to stimulate and publicize African American business, promote employment for the trained youth, increase modern business practices, bring more business and trade conventions to the city, among other goals. This publication of 1940 was produced "for the promotion of business in the City of New Orleans" and the photograph and listing of members and officers shown includes many of the leading businessmen and women of the day.