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Author Parker, Traci, author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages)
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Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject 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.
Noirs américains -- Droits -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Grands magasins -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Consommateurs noirs américains -- Activité politique -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Noirs américains de la classe moyenne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Cols blancs noirs américains -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American white collar workers
African Americans -- Civil rights
Department stores
Middle class African Americans
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Parker, Traci. Department stores and the black freedom movement. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469648668 (DLC) 2018031171 (OCoLC)1043988082
ISBN 9781469648682 (electronic bk.)
1469648687 (electronic bk.)
9781469648699 (electronic bk.)
1469648695 (electronic bk.)
9781469648668 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1469648660 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781469648675 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1469648679 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000065044199
AU@ 000065219293

 
    
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