Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07

unsh " " qnnstl0ned IN . court
action; few os those injured By
% are liksly 10 80 % lAg abput
H.
Moreover, few Negroes can
build houses without borrowing
from tho banks, which stand sol.
IDLY with the Washington Fsal-ea-
tate interests against invasion Of
white districts. In one Waning
ton area after another, during and
since the war. Negroes have been
dispoaasaSed TO make way for
housing projects for whites. a
climax Of some sort 10 10 be- found
in the dog cemetery which win
not give burial 10 . Negro" dogID
~ for employment. nobody
needs 70 prove that Negroes are
universally given the msansst
jobs, paid less than white msn,
are last 10 be hired and FIRST 70 be
fired. In Washington. they are
ons-quaTtsr Of all the workers. but
are thTes-quaFtsFs Of domestic
servants and the unslSilled. They
have only ain per cent Of the Jobs
at the professional and manager
lAl level They are excluded, com.
pletsly or nearly. from work 40
boilermaksFB, motorm1n. teIs-
graph operators. bookksepers. &C.
countAnts. conductors. mAchlnists,
telegraph and telephone hnemen.
metal workers, printing crafts
men. stenoEraphern, typlsts, tsle-
phone operators, clerical workers
and librarians In government
employ . large group Of Negroes
was compared with the same mum.
Der Of white man who. A. u hap
psnsd, had exactly the same sdu-
catIonal background. experience.
and proficiency ratings The white
men were being promoted 600 per
cent faster,
EausatIORS Tho amount spSat
for Negro schools IL SabstAR-
italy irss psT pupil than Ia
spent on white schools Negro
teachers have ~ 20 30 per csnt
more pupils "a hRndIei NeGFs
schools are ia old bulldlnRn.
with iafrFioF facilities, and are
faP more 0vercr0wded than
whit. schools.
Fairgrounds are segregated; In
one case. for example. there 10 .
white playground. almost unusued,
aeroAs the street from . Negro
school housing 1000, with no play.
ground facilities whatever. Super
waora are placed on Fairgrounds
TO make sure that white and Ne
gro children do not mingle. evrn
u they want 10.
Perhaps you think the mlstreat-
ment Of Negroes In Washington II
part Of the sorry heritage from
the malodoroua past. which IL be-
ing better little by little a. time
goes by
On the contrary. things were
better half q century ago than
they are today, A. long ago ~
IsT2. . District ordinance was
passed ferbidding discrimination
In public places, but about the
year 1900 this law mysteFiously
disappeared from the collected
statutes, F1fty years ago Il was
not at all uncommon for Negroes
10 be served in Washington res
tAurants with white patrons; such
an occurrence II extremely rare to-
day,
In 1874 a. most people have
forgotten, Congress passed q ma
tionwids CiukriEhts law. with
stiff penalties. better than any
thing which exists today except
In three or four Of the most nd.
vanerd statsa II was decided I'm
constitutional by . divided gu
prrms Court IN 1888, on the sacred
ground Of states rights
Taft EstAhAaAed Jlm Crow
william Howard Tan was part.
~ Irresponsible for establishing the
color tine In government employ.
msnt, when he personally insisted
that Negro census takers must
not Be employed In white distriets
with the FIRST election Of. Wood
row Wilson, . relatively new type
% Negro-hatrr came TO Congress.
such men a. ''lIoks" Smith OF
Georgia, "P1tchfork Bon" TIhnan
% South Carolina and Janaea X.
vardamah ot Mississippi. bringing
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