"Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work" boycott pickets on 47th Street

CTL-E-1294 · Practice · other · 1929–1939

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Teenagers and adults picketing stores on 47th Street that served Black shoppers but refused to hire Black workers, warning shoppers not to spend money where they couldn't get jobs.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-030; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Building One America, "Timuel Black" speaker biography

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Black enterprise — the shops, banks, and trades that built it. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Office workers at an insurance company, South Side, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Negro barber shop. Southside of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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