American Decades
The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
Report, Advertisements
By: Paul Kenneth Edwards
Date: 1932
Source: Edwards, Paul Kenneth. The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer, 1932. Reprint, College Park, Md.: McGrath Publishing Company, 1969, 246–51. Reproduced in Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921–1929. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed May 14, 2003).
About the Author: Throughout his career, Paul Kenneth Edwards (1898–1959) devoted his scholarly energies to understanding the mind of the black consumer. He received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University, taught at Ursinus College and the University of...
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1920's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Women in the Office
- "The Negro Working Woman"
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924
- The Real Estate Boom
- Installment Buying
- Regulating Radio
- "The Shop Chairmen, the Rank and File and the 'Prosanis' Label"
- "No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
- Calvin Coolidge And Nicaragua
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company"
- "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores"
- Federal Farm Policy
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "A New Era … an Economic Revolution of the Profoundest Character"
- "Brokers and Suckers"
- The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
