Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company

CTL-E-1227 · Business · other · 1925-1985+ (later a division of Atlanta Life); 1925–1985

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago Black-owned insurer (1925–1985), subject of Weems's book-length study. Documented case of 'one-way economic desegregation': white firms entered the Black market post-integration, poached Black agents and middle-class customers, and Black insurers — unable to expand their client base — declined nationally from 50 (1962) to 23 (1992).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001, ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-015, CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-022; source research type(s): financial_institution, insurance company.

Sources

Robert E. Weems Jr., Black Business in the Black Metropolis (Indiana UP, 1996)
Robert E. Weems Jr. (1996); Chicago Defender (1951) via postcard-past.com
Michney, Yale economics working paper (2022)
Weems (1996); OHCHR submission
ohchr.org (Weems WGEPAD submission)
ohchr.org (Weems); marketplace.org (Weems interview)
Indiana Magazine of History (via scholarworks.iu.edu), review of the company's history. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/download/11588/16886/29136
Postcard Past, 'CMMAC and the Parkway Ballroom.' https://www.postcard-past.com/cmmac-and-the-parkway-ballroom/
Encyclopedia.com, 'Jackson, Daniel M.' https://www.encyclopedia.com/african-american-focus/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/jackson-daniel-m
Library of Congress, 'Banking, Insurance and Finance' (African Americans in Business). https://guides.loc.gov/african-americans-in-business/businesses-industries/banking-insurance-finance
scholarworks.iu.edu, Indiana Magazine of History review
postcard-past.com, 'CMMAC and the Parkway Ballroom'; scholarworks.iu.edu review
guides.loc.gov/african-americans-in-business/businesses-industries/banking-insurance-finance
guides.loc.gov (citing Weems)

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