Black Friday (shopping) corner the gold market. When President Grant learned of this manipulation, he ordered the Treasury to release a large supply of gold, which halted the run and caused prices to drop by eighteen percent. Fortunes were made and lost in a single day, and the president's own brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, was ruined. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurs in the journal, "Factory Management and Maintenance", for November 1951, and again in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to
Friday Black Friday Black Friday Black is the 2018 debut book by author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Set in a dystopian near-future of twisted prosaic settings, the collection of short stories explores themes surrounding black identity as it relates to a range of contemporary social issues. The book enjoyed an overall positive reception, including the naming of Adjei-Brenyah as one of the "5 Under 35 Authors" for 2018, by the National Book Foundation. "Friday Black" takes its title from the consumer holiday Black Friday, which takes place in the US on the Friday following Thanksgiving. A collection of dystopian near-future short stories, the