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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement - Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (Paperback)
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement - Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (Paperback)
Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially
integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department
stores, and broadens our understanding of historical
transformations in African American class and labor formation.
Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles
for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of
store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the
mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and
protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in
the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s
with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative
action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American
department stores. In documenting the experiences of African
American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights
the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern
black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and
consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.
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