St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
The Negro & Minnesota's Centennial
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eve odds for lasting place life
the state
II was in the period after World War that the Negro
oad IN postal represent
period highest worker the Negro community and
ay living enjoyed by postal and his
amy above the enjoyed by the Negro family
During all Of the time from
there steady growth Of Negro entrepreneurs who ran small
such and restaurants barber shops shoe shining
parlor cleaning and pressing establishments news
1ape grocery markets There
ue due to lack of capital and experience both but some
lurvived for years.
Only few Negro professionals doctors lawyers
settle and tended to their knitting
patronage support Negroes but from the
white population which Minnesota notably color blind when In
search Of professional services
Every Negro physician who has pracced any
usually finds white patients waiting his outer
ce novelty to Minnesota white
eope represented in the courts by counsel of Negro ancestry
Minnesota was st backward giving Negroes job oppo
Negroes employed 90 OF the
JOB categoes example there Negroes
either building construction field which did not to
until the construction during the defense period and
Immediately following World War IL The mills Of Minneapolis the
manufacturing ST. Paul simply did not employ Negroes
they offered ranging from the story that whites would not
work with Negroes TO admission that they did not want to In
the Negro population Often they exhibited the crime rate and
numbers Negro underabe the why
he law abiding majority of the Negro population which worked under
hey could not employ Negro workers
Since employment the basis for prosperity for family well
city, state and countryside job situation Is always most Inn
Portant When this began publication 1884 Inn
medaoy began campaign long before such things FErC
opening opportunities Negroes
that has ceased and has been rewarded with tremendous
success and strengthened community
The big In building operation OF
the huge small plant at New Brighton operated Charles
Horn staunch Negro helped
the Underground Railroad which sped Negro slaves freedom In
Canada
plant cooperation newspaper Urban
Negroes employment thereby
tapped for the first time unused labor supply and at the same
stabilized the Negro New Brighton Cities
Ordinance employment at other plants which had heretofore
give Negro Jobs
able continued today ordinary Jobs
formerly closed to Negroes begging because there supply
Of Negro applicants,
Brighton experience "a caalyst such
organizations the Urban League aided and abetted by volunteer
like the Joint Committee Employment Opportunity found
both employers workers receptive
From the humble restricted early open
10 the Negro Mnnesotan member, of this
accountants supervisors sales carpenters social workers
correspondence clerks telephone operators plascrcrs
drivers advertising grocery
clerks journalists cashiers school teachers,
layers printers linotype operators shoe palren Concrete
isher rcepuonist forcncn policemen scnogaphers psts
librarians machine operators, wcderS
laboratory teChniCans caterers machntS uphoecrs
metal workers. secretaries drftsmcn practical
nurses file clerks architects shipping clerks truck dspatchors
University makers pharmacists
coaches high school teachers other cssncaonS
Most OF the casseaons listed before have developed the
years Negro
man or woman holding job outside the usual field to Negroes
but such the exception rather
The cracking OF the restrictive employment
beginning remarkable the
munity has been making the past years.
Property ownership Negroes shows heavy
Much forced ownership desirable
nued bar to Negro tenancy good rental property
Negroes however their earliest
acquire OF land and earliest opportunity
The Negro railroad
incomes were among the earlier purchasers homes
In state which long major parties
Negro while numerically affected parties
greatly has been pointed earlier this
that there whites this who sl
the Negro their candidate
extending protecting rights Negro
he automatically obtains the OF thousands
who understand better
Of this democracy Is the Negro American.
Understanding this fact candidates years
have devoted themselves advocacy
FEPc early 1865 the legislature passed
bidding public
Supreme Court around to declaring such schools
Minneapolis Negro Frank Wheaton himself
legislature
North where the number
sofa II true
MIN because his black
rom which he introduced
Poho" exclusion from public Accommodations
religion ~ creed
Early at the turn the century tradition