How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era

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Just Now Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

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7 hours ago Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog

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6 hours ago Imagine a catalog coming in the mail and you can buy anything: hats, clothes, shirts, pants, overalls, farm equipment, guitars, guns—imagine buying guns in the era of Jim Crow through the

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1 hours ago How The Sears Catalog Helped Fight Jim Crow Racism. A century before Amazon upended the retail industry, there was the Sears catalog. If Amazon takes advantage of technology like the internet and delivery trucks, Sears Roebuck and Company took advantage of the technology of their time: expanding railroad lines and the postal system, which was

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How the Sears catalog transformed shopping under Jim Crow
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5 hours ago Before Sears was a department store, it was a mail-order retailer that gave people in far-flung parts of the country the opportunity to shop like their city-dwelling counterparts. Its long, slow decline arguably began in the 1980s and was exacerbated in the years surrounding the 2008 financial crisis.

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5 hours ago 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 mailer advertising

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6 hours ago As historians of the Jim Crow era have documented, purchasing everyday household goods was often an exercise in humiliation for African Americans living in the South. the Sears catalog offered

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7 hours ago From undermining the hierarchy of the Jim Crow era to changing the tune of music, Sears’ stake in American history holds true even as the company comes crashing down.

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Just Now Historians typically date the Jim Crow era to the Mississippi Plan of 1890, which amended Mississippi’s Constitution to allow the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. The Sears catalog

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1 hours ago The Sears Catalog and Jim Crow. Race Civil RIghts Jim Crow Discrimination. During Jim Crow, systemic racism cut into virtually every aspect of political, social, and economic life. This included an act as seemingly simple as shopping. For African-Americans, shopping in a store meant being badly treated including being ignored by sales people.

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1 hours ago In those days, mail order catalogs were as revolutionary as Amazon Prime’s two-day shipping is today. And not only did Sears provide all the basic household necessities, but it also provided an alternative for black consumers who feared being mistreated in public— a rather radical notion in the era of Jim Crow. Capitalism: The Great Equalizer

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4 hours ago Hyman says it’s not a coincidence that the Sears catalog began to decline after the end of the Jim Crow era. Some on the Twitter thread suggested that Amazon shopping can play a similar role for

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Just Now For Louis Hyman’s appearance on NPR’s All Things Considered check out – How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era. For more on the surprising cultural life of the de Laurence Catalogue check out – L.W. de Laurence and the Mysterious Influence of One Human Mind – originally published at The Daily Grail in 2012.

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9 hours ago Sears’s revolutionary ways were not applied across all areas of its business, she notes: In Atlanta, for instance, the company followed …

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How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era
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4 hours ago How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When did jim crow start and end?

Jim Crow Era After the Civil War, there was a period from about 1865 to 1877 where federal laws offered observable protection of civil rights for former slaves and free blacks; it wasn't entirely awful to be an African American, even in the South.

When did sears start selling houses?

In its first catalog in 1888, Sears sold watches and jewelry. The catalogs proved to be popular, and over time different products were added and tested — including houses. The Sears Modern Homes catalog debuted in 1908, and it offered all the material and blueprints needed to build a house.

What was the first sears catalog home model?

The Sears catalog home model Crescent. This model was offered in the catalog off and on between 1921 and 1933. Photo taken 2012 of a Crescent home built in 1926. The Sears catalog home model Osborn. This model was offered in catalogs between 1916 and 1929. A photo of an Osborn home taken in 2013. The Sears catalog home model Alhambra.

Does sears still exist?

Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears houses are still standing today. Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order catalogs to find things to buy.

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