How the Sears Catalog Undermined White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South

Sears has filed for bankruptcy protection and plans to close hundreds of stores in an effort to keep the company afloat. The Sears catalog is perhaps one of the most important and under-appreciated innovations in American life. Starting in 1888 with a m

Column: A professor's tweets teach us what the 'radical' Sears catalog says about our racial past – Chicago Tribune

Massive Resistance in a Small Town The National Endowment for the Humanities

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United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County - Many people are familiar with the Sears Catalog, but not many people know its role in combating Jim Crow racism in America. Purchasing

Subverting Whiteness: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Anti-Racist Praxis by Charles R. Collins and Erin Watson in GJCPP Volume 12 Issue 3 2021

Civil Rights, World War II, and U.S. Public Opinion, Studies in American Political Development

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Sears catalog: How mail-order shopping unintentionally combatted racism - Vox

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

How Sears Catalog Fought White Supremacists

Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism