Book ID: CBB568276221

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (2019)

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Parker, Traci (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 313
Language: English

Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores and its neglected role in the mid-twentieth century black freedom movement. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of the 1930's 'Don't Buy Where You Can't Work' Movement, the department store movement recruited the power of store workers and labor unions, held behind-the-scene meetings with store officials in the postwar era, executed successful lunch counter sit-ins and selective patronage programs in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenged race discrimination in the courts in the 1970s. However, with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases, the movement effectively ended in 1981.

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Review Brenna Wynn Greer (Winter 2019) Review of "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s". Business History Review (pp. 851-854). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Reid-Vazquez, Michele
Candacy A. Taylor
Finney, Carolyn
Trotter, Joe William, Jr.
Odom, Brian C.
Marcia Chatelain
Concepts
African Americans
Civil rights
Race
African Americans and science
Business history
Technology and race
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Richmond, Virginia
Oregon (U.S.)
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
Caribbean
Institutions
McDonald's Corporation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
UNESCO
United Nations
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