Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights at G. Fox & Co. Department Store

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT

We invite CMCH members and visitors to bring a lunch and join us for a noontime talk by Dr. Traci Parker, NERFC fellow, about the racial integration of sales and clerical work at G. Fox during and after the Second World War.

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights at G. Fox & Co. Department Store

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT

We invite CMCH members and visitors to bring a lunch and join us for a noontime talk by Dr. Traci Parker, NERFC fellow, about the racial integration of sales and clerical work at G. Fox during and after the Second World War.

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Struggle: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford

How did civil rights activists use department stores (like Hartford's G. Fox) as centers for the struggle for black freedom? Historian Traci Parker will discuss her new book on this topic. Come early to view our exhibition, Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Struggle: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford

How did civil rights activists use department stores (like Hartford's G. Fox) as centers for the struggle for black freedom? Historian Traci Parker will discuss her new book on this topic. Come early to view our exhibition, Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.