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02933aam a2200433 i 4500 001 7F0C34FC6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180628s2019 ncua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018031171 020 $a 1469648660 020 $a 9781469648668 020 $a 1469648679 020 $a 9781469648675 035 $a (OCoLC)1043988082 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.61 P254 2019 100 1 $a Parker, Traci, $e author. 245 10 $a Department stores and the black freedom movement : $b workers, consumers, and civil rights from the 1930s to the 1980s / $c Traci Parker. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 313 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Department stores $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American white collar workers $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American consumers $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Middle class African Americans $x History $y 20th century. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 830 0 $a John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214013513.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605011728.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F0C34FC6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search