Sears catalog helped African Americans subvert Jim Crow
By A Mystery Man Writer
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Historian says that in the segregated South, “Black families could buy without asking permission. Without waiting. Without being watched. With national (cheap) prices!”
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Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a
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The Sears Catalog changed how Black Americans purchased goods in
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February 2018 – UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog
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The Economic Color Blindness of the Sears Catalog
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How The Sears Catalog Helped Fight Jim Crow Racism
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Opinion How Sears Helped Oppose Jim Crow - The New York Times
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Postal Service shuts Montpelier Station office over racial
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The Sears mail-order catalogue subverted Jim Crow-era racism
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Back When Sears Made Black Customers a Priority - The New York Times
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