This image was well known in the African American community.
First published in 1925, it was reprinted four years later in
The Negro in Chicago. This area of State Street (just off the
top of Map 3) was located in an older section of black
businesses closer to the downtown area than Thirty-fifth Street.
1) Which of the following black-owned businesses that occupied
this stretch of buildings would you expect to find in a
neighborhood shopping center today: a drugstore, a barber shop,
a florist, a tailor, a music store, a photographer, a millinery
shop, and a fish market? How might shopping here in the 1920s
differ from your shopping experiences today? 2) List the most
obvious differences between the buildings pictured here and
those found in Drawing 1. What might account for these
differences? * The image on the screen has a resolution of 72
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