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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Ephemera from “Operation Breadbasket”. [Chicago: 1960s-1970s]. Included in this group: 7 handbills on multi-colored paper, mostly reproducing newspaper articles about Operation Breadbasket; 2 Operation Breadbasket newspaper supplements (one with a photo featuring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson); 4 copies of an invitation to a 1 day conference, “The Status of Blacks in the Labor Movement” on Saturday, June 20, 1970; 9 sign-up sheets for Business Consumer Groups for Operation Breadbasket (Addie Wyatt has partially filled-out one page); a 2-page copy of a letter (unsigned) from Addie Wyatt to Rev. Jesse Jackson, asking Jackson to assist with women’s employment issues in Illinois (some general toning, mild wear, soiling, occasional ink markings, some documents creased). Operation Breadbasket was an incentive to make local businesses in African American communities more responsive to their customer base. “The fundamental premise of Breadbasket is a simple one. Negroes need not patronize a business which denies them jobs, or advancement [or] plain courtesy” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 11 July 1967). “Many retail businesses and consumer-goods industries,” King explained, “deplete the ghetto by selling to Negroes without returning to the community any of the profits through fair hiring practices” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 1967). After King’s assassination, Rev. Jesse Jackson assumed leadership of this organization. From the estate of Addie and Claude Wyatt, Jr.