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Written by Fazia Rizvi on 2024-11-07 at 14:10

Reading through this and feeling all the things through the weight of history. For everyone who says “I don’t recognize my country today”, there are those still living whose parents most definitely would.

“The vicious­ness of seg­re­ga­tion didn’t stop at the store. As he says, local post­mas­ters would often refuse to sell stamps or mon­ey orders to black cus­tomers… Store­keep­ers burned the cat­a­logs…”

https://www.openculture.com/2018/10/sears-catalog-disrupted-jim-crow-south-helped-give-birth-delta-blues-rock-roll.html

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