The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-23
JIM CROW CAR AND SEGREGA-
TON LAWS.

Among the most irritating and
almost uncomfortable condition of
'ch Negroes are subjected are
'heJim Crow Car Residential Sc
gregation and Labor Segregation
laws of various Southern states
Negroes pay the same railroad fares
as other passengers but are forced
TO ride in second hand, filthy I'M
sanitary, combination coach and
baggage car iammed next or near
to the locomotive, tender; if the
Negro coach becomes crowded.
which is more frequent than other
wise, they are compelled to stand
and ride thus to their destination,
although they have paid for a seat
Residential segregation agitation
now rife, seeks to force Negroes
into certain blocks or districts in
towns and cities and certain town
ships or districts in the rural dis
tricts; these laws, when applied
will simply mean that whatever por-
tton of any city is most undesirable
will be open to Negroes for residen-
tial purposes he will not be permit
ted to exercise his choice as a free
man in buying a home nor will the
party who may like to sell him the
Nme he may desire be allowed
exercise his choice in selluing prop
cry owned by him to the person
willing to pay his price. The same
is true of rural segregation; the
Negro will be pushed into the
swamps and worn out sand hills
when rural segregation laws are
passed. The viciousness and in
Justice of law of this character
readily reveal themselves when ex-
aminded
n the textile mills of South Car.
Nibited from working in the same
olint Negroes and whites are pro-
room at the same time. If Negroes
and whites can be prohibited from
working together in the same room
the prohibition can be extended 10
prevent them from working to
gethef in or on the same building;
in banks as porters or messengers
in stores as porters or drivers Of
delivery wagons or as window wash
ers in anv building where there are
white workers, in hotels, or on rail
way trains; and when politicians be
gin to see the beauty of new
schemes, brand new issues afford
ing opportunity to pose as cham
pions of the poor white working
man and upon which he can appea
TO the white voter in the primary
demand will be made that statute.
be passed to prohibit Negroes from
working together in any occupation
where white men will want the Jobs
LACK OF SCHOOL FACILITIES.
The most fragrant disregard o.
the Negroes welfare and rights as 6
taxpaying citizen is the refusal tt
provide, reasonably adequate facili
ties for the education of Negro
youth. The public schools in Soutl
Carolina, except in some towns ant
cities, are pretense and a farce
There is absolutely no supervision
| CACCpI III SUule low lis anu Clues
and in most of these supervision il
merely perfunctory. The Negr.
rural school teacher is the poores
paid and any class of workers excep
! female domestics. Their schools
1 average about three months il
: length of term at an average salar,
J Of about $500 per month for eacl
I teacher, This condition is drivin
e the most competent teacher out o
2 the school room into other occupa
tions and leaving the work to b
: done by young and inexperience
. female teachers and others for tn
most part Incompetent Splendi
: edifices, beautiful and complete Il
J design and equipment are built TO
= white children, who are conceye
e to and from school at the publ
!. expense; night schools are estat
l lished for white and public l.
: braries are maintained out of tn
, taxes paid by all, while Negr
I schools are still conducted in shack
0 without equipment, majority @
them subjecting teacher and chi