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Church Program & Choir Anniversary Economy

CTL-E-1384 · Event · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Black church program economy: choir anniversaries, musicals, and sheet-music sales through church networks that funded and circulated gospel music.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:church-program-economy; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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A greystone home converted to a church, South Side, Chicago, 1941
A greystone home converted to a church, South Side, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
A converted-storefront church with cars of the congregation, Chicago, 1941
A converted-storefront church with cars of the congregation, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Easter Sunday service, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Easter Sunday service, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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