Corner-store and neighborhood grocery shopping in Black Chicago

CTL-E-1310 · Practice · other · 1920–2026

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Everyday grocery procurement in Black neighborhoods across eras: 1930s Black Metropolis residents paying more for lower-quality groceries; the kitchenette economy; postwar corner stores (including Black-owned stores that later sold to immigrant owners); modern food-access gaps and Black-owned markets answering them.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-046; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

• YouTube, "Black and White History" (summary of Drake & Cayton, Black Metropolis, 1945)
• ProPublica, "Disinvested"
• eScholarship, "Corner Stores" documentary abstract
• Black Enterprise, "Chicago Grocery Store Reclaims Promise of 'Forty Acres'"
• The Free Library, "'Part of the Loaf': Economic Conditions of Chicago's African-American Working Class During the 1920's" (citing Cohen 1990)

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