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Thanks to Sears, the musicians who gave us the Blues had an an ax to grind NBCNews.com Because that quintessentially American form of music was created and disseminated by Delta bluesmen wielding steel string guitars purchased from the Sears catalog — which leveled the shopping playing field for blacks in the Jim Crow era — according ... Sears's 'radical' past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim CrowWashington Post all 9 news articles »

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