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Black Technology

CTL-E-1425 · Work · other · 2026

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CultureTechLens working paper on Black invention and digital life; deposited on Zenodo 2026-10-05, open access, CC BY 4.0.

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Record CTL-E-1425 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 1 source · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: CTL-SELF-001.
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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.

Inside a dress shop on 47th Street, Chicago's Black business corridor, Chicago, 1941
Inside a dress shop on 47th Street, Chicago's Black business corridor, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
A men's furnishings counter on 47th Street, Chicago, 1941
A men's furnishings counter on 47th Street, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
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

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