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A woman serves customers at a hardware store in the black-owned-business capital of the United States, the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, 1973. Image courtesy National Archives. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).

A woman serves customers at a hardware store in the black-owned-business capital of the United States, the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, 1973. Image courtesy National Archives. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).