This little slip tucked in Grandma’s Bible, an old postal money order beat Jim Crow.
The Postal service turned your porch into power, money orders that bypassed hostile banks, Rural Free Delivery that brought letters and catalogs to your door, Parcel Post with C.O.D. so you only paid when the box arrived, Postal Savings to build a safe cushion
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https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/african-american-workers-20thc.htm
https://www.aaihs.org/black-workers-and-consumers-in-the-long-civil-rights-movement/
https://academic.oup.com/north-carolina-scholarship-online/book/17658