In it are some who year in and year out never leave the narrow confines of Harlem. There are those who make rare excursions into the larger shopping districts and rarer still to the theatrical center. There are those who, still ghetto-bound mentally, have been pressed through the bars of the cage, but they have been caught up and placed in tiny ghettos of their own in other sections of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and on Long Island. Their lives too are race-bound. But there is another group, which is not Harlem bound, whose contacts are many, whose sphere of activity is wide and ever widening.
Education is the way out of the ghetto.
Age submits, but youth even though the door be barred revolts. In many instances age contributes to the burden by pressing youth into the beaten paths of experience, by insisting upon teaching, preaching and medicine as the appropriate professional goals. Youth is escaping into business, art and the technical professions. A few even are escaping into the broad freedom of the leisure class. In sharp contrast with these rebels of success who are seeking to work out their own destiny, these individualists who often appear in the first instance to be deserting the race, are the conscious pathbreakers those who protest at proscription.