The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-07-04
THE NEGRO, NORTH AND SOUTH.
New York Commercially


Negro chauGeurs no longer are per
mitted within the petrol-favored pre-
cincts of many Of the best garages of |
New York, and each day sees access
sions to the list of these auto-storage
places where the brother in black is
not wanted. Not merely on the blue
gum" has the ban been laid. The
chauffeur may be only quadroon, an
octoroon even, but standing firmly by
the adage, "a niger is a niger even
if you whitewash him" the garage
proprietors refuse sanctuary to the
machine he drives.
Whether the white chauffeurs are
banded together in league against the
black is not clear, but certain it is
that garage proprietors are daily in
viting auto owners with Negro chauf-
,feurs to store their machines else
where "If | keep your machines,
one auto owner was informed, / shall
lose six or eight now stored here. It's
a business matter with me-
Next we shall hear of the formation
throughout the south of associations
} for the advancement of the interests
of the Negro of the north and the
southern white man Wild embark on
campaign of education. Each year
sees fewer avenues of industry which
the Negro may enter in the north, for
the Negro may be kept in his place
without divorcing him from his job.
And why shut the kitchen door in his
face merely because the parlor door is
slightly ajar? Back in 1865 the Negro
was started in his journey to social
equality, industrial freedom, forty
acres and a mule. The mistake was
made by the colored brother, appar-
emily, for the north has not yet
learned that he assumed that these
things were to come to pass all over
this country instead of merely in the
subjected district south of the Poto-
mac and the Ohio. In arrogance born
| of the ignorance in which heartless
slave drivers of the south held him,
he rashly has assumed that in the in
cubator of emancipation he could
| look for social equality outside the
lecture platform and industrial free
dom other than freedom to look for
another job in some other neighbor-
hood and in some other line of en-
deavor
Really things are coming to pretty
pass here in the north. New York
City's Negro population is growing
steadily. and as fast as he is driven
from one occupation the black is en-
tering those fields which, either be-
cause they are new or because hither-
to they have been occupied entirely
by whites, have not yet been closed
to him. From the housebuilding
trades and the mechanical fields he is
largely excluded The chauffeur is a
development of the past ten years,
and it is only lately that he has be-
come a factor. Office work thus far
is limited to office boy and messenger
service, but if this thing keeps up he
will develop into a bookkeeper, office
manager or corporation director, while
Ibis sister will be seeking employment
as a bellgirl or stenographer. But the
sense of justice so strongly char
acteristic of the white brother in this
neck of the woods will soon see to II
that the Negro wins the privilege Of
holding down any position which the
white man does not need, providing
the Negro understands that the whitt
man is entitled to every available jot
in every line of work.
The south handles the problem in Its
own way, and there the down-troddeI
black seems really contented with the
fact that no protest ever is made tina
he is invading the white mans fields
He keeps to his own, but the southern
white has arranged matters so tina
there is work for every Negro VIII
will work. The housebuilding trades
: the mechanical fields and occupation
of many kinds are open to him, Will
the fact that socially and otherwis
+ he is kept apart has developed
large and growing field of financia
AID commercial endeavor in whicI
the better minds and hands find pro
table employment The Negro banl
err, real estate operator, retailer, Law
yer, physician, dentist and publishe
are found in every southern tow
= and Negro board of trade can usua
ly be found doing its part in the pr
motion of community interests.