Table of Contents:
  • Youth and first business ventures, 1862-1895
  • Early Sears years, 1895-1908
  • Blacks, politics, and philanthropy, 1908-1912
  • Black schools, political attacks, and the profit sharing plan, 1912-1916
  • World War I, 1916-1918
  • The rescue of Sears and the consolidation of philanthropic endeavors, 1919-1924
  • New philanthropic ventures, 1924-1928
  • The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Hoover, and the Depression, 1928-1930
  • Final year and postmortem, 1931-1949
  • Conclusion.