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"Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work" campaign

CTL-E-1343 · Event · other · 1929–c.1932

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago-originated (1929) consumer boycott campaign, organized by the Chicago Whip (founder Joseph D. Bibb, managing editor A.C. MacNeal) and activist James Hale Porter with the NAACP. Slogan coined by Bibb; targeted A&P and Silver Dollar Food grocery chains with picketing and daily boycotts to force hiring of Black workers. Promoted the 'Double Duty Dollar' through Chicago churches. First use of direct action among Black Chicago civil rights organizations.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-001; source research type(s): campaign.

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Shoppers at a ten-cent store counter, South Side, Chicago, 1941
Shoppers at a ten-cent store counter, South Side, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Office workers at an insurance company, South Side, Chicago, 1941
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, 1941
Negro barber shop. Southside of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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