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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Thomas W. (Thomas Wade), 1949– author.

Title: From Willard Straight to Wall Street : a memoir / Thomas W. Jones.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes

bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018047984 (print) | LCCN 2018053867 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781501736339 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501736346 (epub/mobi) |

ISBN 9781501736322 | ISBN 9781501736322 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Jones, Thomas W. (Thomas Wade), 1949– | African American

capitalists and financiers—Biography. | African American executives—Biography. |

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)—Biography.

Classification: LCC HG172.J66 (ebook) | LCC HG172.J66 J66 2019 (print) |

DDC 332.1092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047984

Toting a rifle and raising a clenched fist, Thomas W. Jones, spokesman for the Afro-American Society at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, marches out of a student union hall after black militants occupied the building in a showdown over race relations, April 20, 1969 (AP Photo / Steve Starr).