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For the Records - Southern Cultures
https://www.southerncultures.org/article/for-the-records-how-african-american-consumers-and-music-retailers-created-commercial-public-space-in-the-1960s-and-1970s-south/
At their peak, there were “at least 400 to 500 black-owned record stores—and probably closer to one thousand,” Davis writes. For their customers, each represented much more than a place to listen to the latest Curtis Mayfield or Joe Tex release (although that’s a great reason to exist), but a chance to belong to something greater.