Department stores and the black freedom movement : workers, consumers, and civil rights from the 1930s to the 1980s / Traci Parker.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Main Author: Parker, Traci (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Department stores > United States > History > 20th century.
African American white collar workers > History > 20th century.
African American consumers > Political activity > History > 20th century.
Middle class African Americans > History > 20th century.
African American white collar workers.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Department stores.
Middle class African Americans.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 313 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Race and class identities in early American department stores
  • Before Montgomery : organizing the department store movement
  • To all store and office workers, Negro and white! : unionism and anti-discrimination in the department store industry
  • The department store movement in the postwar era
  • Worker-consumer alliances and the modern black middle class, 1951-1970
  • Toward Wal-Mart : the death of the department store movement.