Two untold stories about Black self-help in the South, particularly during the Reconstruction era, are the role that the U.S. Post Office and Sear & Roebuck Co. played. I hope this article speaks to this. I will not be positioned to sit down and read it until next week.
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Oxford American
In “Post Script,” Rachel Boillot explores the role of the postal service in rural Southern communities—including the impact of the U.S. government’s decision to close more than three thousand post offices in 2011.
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