CMA Grocery Store Jobs
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In January 1930, NNBL Secretary Albon L. Holsey estimated that if African-Americans would be intentional about where they purchased their groceries, there would be some 400,000 additional jobs open to them. Good paying jobs served as the most important problem facing them at the time. If they organized their $650 million in spending on groceries it would generate some 470,000 jobs of which they control less than 1/10.
