style="font-size:15px;"> 10 10. Ibid.11 11. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
12 12. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opinion/elaine-massacre-1919-arkansas.html
13 13. https://lynchingsitesmem.org/lynching/peoples-grocery-lynchings-thomas-moss-will-stewart-calvin-mcdowell
14 14. http://historic-memphis.com/biographies/peoples-grocery/peoples-grocery.html
15 15. https://www.history.com/news/ida-b-wells-lynching-memphis-chicago
16 16. https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2019/07/Black-wall-street/
17 17. https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/john-merrick-went-from-slavery-to-riches/
18 18. Interview with the author. Bristol Douglas, John Merrick's mutual life insurance company started out of his compassion, because there were people who had some misfortune happen, July 6, 2020.
19 19. https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/john-merrick-went-from-slavery-to-riches/
20 20. https://savingplaces.org/places/a-g-gaston-motel#.Xz1kEm5KjIU
21 21. Interview with the author. Smith Suzanne, Thoughts on the significance of Gaston, July 6, 2020.
22 22. Interview with the author. Bristol Douglas, How competition between Black entrepreneurs can be carried out in a healthy way, July 6, 2020.
23 23. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/02/05/missing-pieces-report-the-2018-board-diversity-census-of-women-and-minorities-on-fortune-500-boards/
24 24. https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap
25 25. https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2019/04/the-gender-pay-gap-has-closed-5-cents-since-2015-but-dont-celebrate-yet; https://www.payscale.com/data/racial-wage-gap-for-men; https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/economic-justice/fair-pay/quantifying-americas-gender-wage-gap.pdf; https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap
26 26. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053315
27 27. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-Blacks
28 28. https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2016/12/the_real_reasons_the_us_became.html
29 29. Ibid.
30 30. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-Blacks
31 31. Interview with the author. Chatelain Marcia, Racial capitalism, May 13, 2020.
32 32. https://apnews.com/60ee1b62df4f41a4a1af0a3749e90370/Ben-Carson-compares-slavery-to-immigration-to-America
33 33. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery-made-america/373288/
34 34. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/872371063/microaggressions-are-a-big-deal-how-to-talk-them-out-and-when-to-walk-away
35 35. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44203/we-wear-the-mask
