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History of Black Friday

by Bill Petro on November 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Christmas, Culture, History, Holidays, Humor

HISTORY OF BLACK FRIDAY
While it is difficult to connect this term to the start of the Christmas shopping sales season before its use in the mid-1960s in Philadelphia, the concept appears to go back to the 19th century when Christmas sales followed Thanksgiving Day parades. In 1939 President Franklin D Roosevelt set the date of [...]

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