Larry Gennari talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jacqueline Jones, about her new book, No Right to an Honest Living, and the roots of Black entrepreneurialism in Boston.
In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths.
