George's Music Room

CTL-E-0510 · Business · retail · 1969-present (Daniels managing from 1968)

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black-owned record wholesaler and retailer on Michigan Avenue; George Daniels started managing a Black-owned wholesale record store in 1968 and assumed ownership in 1969, renaming it George's Music Room. Survived bankruptcy and evictions; founded the National United Independent Retailers; later operated a Midway Airport branch.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001, ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-026, CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-014, CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-036; source research type(s): business, record_store.

Sources

• The HistoryMakers, finding aid for George Daniels oral history (A2007_156) (primary source)
• The HistoryMakers, Finding Aid to Video Oral History with George Daniels (A2007_156) (primary source)
• The TRiiBE, 'George's Music Room is in conceptual phase' (2024)
• https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2007_156_EAC.pdf (primary source)

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