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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parker, Traci (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Middle class African Americans.
Department stores.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American white collar workers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Noirs americains de la classe moyenne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Consommateurs noirs americains > Activite politique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Grands magasins > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Middle class African Americans > History > 20th century.
African American consumers > Political activity > History > 20th century.
African American white collar workers > History > 20th century.
Department stores > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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