AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Trade Union, The Chicago Defender
25 Aug 2016
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Chicago defender: most significant afro- american publication of its time, very descriptive (provide a picture of what is going on, to help pull afro-americans up to the north, throw copies out of trains. Very high illiteracy rate so it was read out loud. Barbershops, churches, and homes: 1921 millions of blacks migrate north. Don"t buy where you can"t work movement (1929) Use consumer power to make demands when it comes to labor. Conshankin (not considered starter of don"t buy where : go in front of places and just beat ppl up (black) Afro-americans could easily get jobs as cleaners but they wanted jobs in realtor stores. Dc catches onto movement so supreme court decided that the protesters a are not. Light skinned black women that could pass for white got the jobs laborers (decision overturned in 1938: norris laguardia act. You can picket if you are a laborer. Baltimore- 1 protest alone against a&m supermarket (38 workers at a store)
