Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

by Traci Parker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469648660
• ISBN13: 9781469648668
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"