Among the major occupations, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Drawing on interviews with pioneering black Certified public accountants, among other sources, Hammond sets the stories of black Certified public accountants against the background of the increase of accountancy as an occupation, the specific difficulties that African Americans trying to get in the field dealt with, and the methods that made it possible for some blacks to end up being CPAs. Only through nationwide networks developed by the very first black CPAs did more African Americans get the requisite professional experience.
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