Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement最新文献

The Department Store Movement in the Postwar Era 战后的百货商店运动

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0005

Traci Parker

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Before Montgomery 在蒙哥马利

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0003

Traci Parker

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Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores 早期美国百货公司的种族和阶级认同

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0002

Traci Parker

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To All Store and Office Workers … Negro and White! 致所有商店和办公室的工作人员……黑人和白人!

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0004

Traci Parker

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Worker-Consumer Alliances and the Modern Black Middle Class, 1951–1970 工人-消费者联盟和现代黑人中产阶级，1951-1970

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0006

Traci Parker

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Toward Wal-Mart 对沃尔玛

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0007

Traci Parker

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Epilogue 后记

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement Pub Date : 2019-04-08 DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0008

Traci Parker

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