Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

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 earlie...

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Main Author:	Parker, Traci
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The University of North Carolina Press 2025
Subjects:	Civil Rights Movement in the North Civil Rights Movement in the South labor movement labor-oriented civil rights movement black economic citizenship race and consumer capitalism labor and consumer capitalism black class formation black middle class African Americans and department stores department stores Macy’s Marshall Field and Company Sears, Roebuck, and Company Kmart Wal-Mart South Center Department Stores W.T. Grant’s Hecht’s department store black shopping black consumption Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Movement Buy Where You Can Work movement retail unions and the civil rights movement worker-consumer alliances Strawbridge & Clothier Wanamaker’s racial capitalism civil rights activism in thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXU Trade unions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
Online Access:	ONIX_20250128_9798890851437_8
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