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
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Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism
Sears' 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
How Free Market Capitalism Often Acts as a Solvent for Racism and Discrimination
Massive Resistance in a Small Town The National Endowment for the Humanities
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during
Column: A professor's tweets teach us what the 'radical' Sears catalog says about our racial past – Chicago Tribune
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