Acknowledgments

Introduction

Growing Up in Chicago

Into the Advertising Industry

Burrell-McBain Advertising

Finding Solid Footing

The Burrell Agency

First in the Nation

Overcoming a Crisis

The Final Years

Notes

Index

About the Author

Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry and coeditor of Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.

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"Chamber's extensive interviews with his subject illuminate how a corporate trailblazer navigated the changing mores of the post-civil rights era. Business historians and advertising professionals will want to take a look. " --Publishers Weekly “Jason P. Chambers’ thoughtful and thorough biography of Tom Burrell makes an important contribution to African American business history."--Robert E. Weems, Jr., author of The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire “Jason P. Chambers’s thoughtful and thorough biography of Tom Burrell makes an important contribution to African American business history.”--Robert E. Weems, Jr., author of The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire

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