How the Sears Catalog Disrupted the Jim Crow South and Helped Give Birth to the Delta Blues & Rock and Roll

For all of the justified ire directed at certain online retailers for their anti-competitive practices, tax evasion, labor exploitation, and so on, one fact often goes unremarked upon since it seems to fall outside the usual narratives.

Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life

Reconstruction into Jim Crow - Slavery & Freedom - Research Guides at George Washington University

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How Sears Catalog Fought White Supremacists

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A National Struggle . The Congress

How Sears Catalog Fought White Supremacists

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Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life

Sears's 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow - The Washington Post

How Sears Catalog Fought White Supremacists