Delta Chapter Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Presents Business on Parade; Thursday April 17, 1952, 8 P.M. Morris Brown College Auditorium Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta: Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, 1952. [40]pp. Darkened and rubbed overall with a small tear to the top of the front, else very good. Item #69311
While ostensibly a program produced in conjunction with the sorority’s presentation, the publication in question operates on another, more revealing level. The contents within are nominally devoted to the celebration of scholarship, service, and sisterhood, but actually assemble a portrait of Black enterprise in mid-century Atlanta.
A souvenir booklet that doubles as a de facto business directory, a roll call of barbershops, dressmakers, insurance men, funeral parlors, and professional offices that sustained the city’s African American community. In its advertisements and acknowledgments, one can trace the contours of a parallel economy, self-sufficient and resilient, operating within and against the segregated order of the day.
It is, inadvertently but unmistakably, a map of ambition and solidarity rendered in the modest format of an event program.
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