Mildred Johnson, a pilot, started a successful air-delivery service in the middle of the Great Depression. Ada “Bricktop” Smith countered the anti-Black racism of the 1920s by moving to Paris to work as a performer and, later, a nightclub owner, and she still found time to teach Harlem’s latest dance to the Prince of Wales. Late at night Maria de Ramirez Kramer listened to out-of-town radio stations for up-and-coming dance bands that she brought to New York City to play at her hotels. These stories and more from researcher Mary Goljenboom, who will present a selection of some of the most interesting and illuminating from her archive of the history of businesswomen and female entrepreneurs, as well as discuss her sources and methods for this often tricky research.
Back to All Events