Staking a Claim
Jonathan Greenberg. Plume Books, $9.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26554-7
Simmons, an oil broker, entrepreneur and civil rights activist who often applied Booker T. Washington's principles to his business practices, became the world's first internationally recognized black oilman. According to PW , this is a ``crisply written, sympathetic biography.'' Photos. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction