Black Baseball Leagues
During the period of American history known as “Jim Crow”, one of the most thriving institutions in black life was the Black Baseball Leagues. The leagues enriched the quality of life in the black communities across the United States. The leagues enriched the quality of life in the black communities across the United States. The leagues were among the largest black businesses in the United States. A by-product of the leagues was the network of businesses, rooming houses, cafes, sewing factories which served and supported the leagues.

Housewives League of Detroit
Founded June 10, 1930 by Mrs. Fannie B. Peck, the Housewives League of Detroit was created and organized as a direct result of the economic conditions that existed for the black populace in the United States in general, and Detroit, in particular. Housewives’ League of Detroit (HLD) designed a consumer-business support model that helped to sustain the economic foundation of Detroit’s black population. Based on the knowledge that “housewives controlled 80% of the family’s income,” the HLD’s strategy of interconnectedness between consumer and business, paved the way for Negro employment.

Black Builders Club
The Black Builders Club (BBC) is black-owned and operated. They help their members make money on the internet, while still growing their primary business to get improved cash flow. The BBC is an organization of members who promote an important institution in the black community that has been overlooked and underrated for a very long time- Black Businesses.

Du Bois Cooperative Economic Model
The fullest expression of Du Bois's early socialism comes, however, not in his nonfiction prose but in his first novel his 1911 romance the Quest of the Silver Fleece, which offers both a specifically socialist critique of US economics and an alternative economic model originating in cooperative, southern black folkways. Du Bois's reliance on a small, social democratic colony in Quest of the Silver Fleece is, in some respects, a throwback to a 19th-century, communitarian tradition in US socialism; in another respect, it anticipates Du Bois's advocacy of economic co-operatives in the Crisis during coming years, and even the audacious proposals for self-segregation that led to Du Bois's break with the NAACP over two decades later. Du Bois believed that it was imperative for blacks to focus on their own group development in order to bring to bring about a socialist alliance with white workers.

Motown
Berry Gordy founded and presided over the musical empire known as Motown. Under his tutelage, Motown became a model of black economic self-determination, black pride and black self-expression. His musical dynasty yielded in millions of dollars, but the story of Motown is the story of family and community. Motown’s success was in the concept of the Motown family. The artists, musicians, technicians, business executives, and secretaries all shared an interest in everyone’s success.

Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) has a do-for-self philosophy that resulted in the NOI owning and operating hundreds of businesses nationwide, employing thousands of people. The NOI has purchased and now operates food-industry services, bakeries, and restaurants. It owns a large amount of farmland in Georgia. It owns and operates hair-care shops. Some of these business ventures have been success stories.