Item #140939269 Don't Buy Where You Can't Work SEARS 3 Inner City Stores Grand River Gratiot Highland Park have 75 Percent Negro Patronage and less than 10 Percent Negro Employees in Lower Paying Jobs. Negro Retail Store Employees Association / The Inner City Organizing Committee.
Don't Buy Where You Can't Work SEARS 3 Inner City Stores Grand River Gratiot Highland Park have 75 Percent Negro Patronage and less than 10 Percent Negro Employees in Lower Paying Jobs

Don't Buy Where You Can't Work SEARS 3 Inner City Stores Grand River Gratiot Highland Park have 75 Percent Negro Patronage and less than 10 Percent Negro Employees in Lower Paying Jobs

[Detroit]: Negro Retail Store Employees Association / The Inner City Organizing Committee.

[ca. 1940-1960?]. Single sheet measuring 9-7/8" x 10, printed on recto only. Top edge rough cut, perhaps as issued or with blank margin partially missing. Moderately toned, and with a faint vertical crease down the center.

Beginning in the 1930s, the Don't Buy Where You Can't Work campaign sprung up in northern American cities, with black community members protesting against discriminatory hiring practices of targeted white-owned businesses. Such businesses would typically be picketed in order to increase job opportunities and harness the economic power of the community to affect change. This broadside appears to be boycotting three Sears locations in the Detroit area, which had "75% negro patronage, and less than 10% negro employees in lower paying jobs." Locally, this movement was supported by the Detroit Housewives' League, activist African American housewives who tirelessly worked to promote black-owned businesses and in turn, increase employment opportunities for black workers. Item #140939269

Price: $350.00