Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
The Negro x Minncsota's Centennial
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Iastng place industrial social economic ME
4 the state
1t ~aa in tho period after World
roads postal
period paid worker the Negro community and US
a tho standard Of living enjoyed BY tho Negro postal worker and his
amiy above the average enjoyed by N" Negro family
during an of the time from then 1887
70 there steady growth II Negro entrepeneua who ran ANAL
businesses such sGpa
arors drug cleaning pressing establishments
Japcrs grocery There
aurea due to lack Of capital and experience or both but some
Iurvived Tor years.
only Tow Negro profossonala DOCTORS lawyers
astad their knitting
patronage support Negroes bat the
white population which Minnesota notably color blind when IN
cereh u professional ssrveea
EVERY Negro physician praoticed any
usually white patients waiting his outer
Negro novelty Minnesota white
people represented by Negro
Minnesota was ,tn backward about giving Negroes job oppo
auie late ip22 There Negoea employed IN 20 q the
job there Negroes to
athr building construction field which did open 10
hem until the construction boom during the defense period and
immediately following World n THE mills Minneapolis tins
manufacturing plants Paul simply dd employ NeEraea
from che that whites would not
york with Negroes 10 admission that they did not want 10 In
The Negro population often they exhibited the and
he numbers 81 Negro tpdearab the why
abidtuR majority population
hey could not employ Negro workers
employment prosperity family
state ceuaty,he Job situation Is always
p"rtant When I'M. "ga" publication IN 1884 In"
nilatsly began before things rrro
has tremendous
and strengthened community,
big with tho huidng and operation oil
sman plant New brighton operated BY Charles
the Underground Railroad which pod Negro slaves 20 freeiom ~
Canada.
This plant with the cooperation o this and the Urban
League ntegatoi Nogtuca At al employment levels ana thereby
stabilized tho community Brighton
ordinance came employment az other plants which had heretofore
ptyC of
continued untn to-day ordinarily lahs
formerly closed Nogro begging because there supply
Of Negro applicants
Brighton experience served a catalyst such
organizations the Urban aided ahetl volunteer
groups ike the Committee Employment Opportunity rouna
both employers ard white
humbc Ip- carty state open
the group
accountants supervisors. sale. PERSONS carpenters .oa workers.
telephone operators. plasers drivers
bus drivers drivers advertising grocery
clerks turaau.. c,h,c,. haoI teacher. r,ro,t n,, ,,k
layers printers linotype operators Shoe rcpairnn
shers rC~Pionsts. torvn~n policemen scnogapho tSps
librarians. machine operators. toron'cn weer chemists.
laboratory trchnlcisns raaenn uphoistcrvr,
metal workers. secretaries practical rrger
nc clerks architects shipping d.ratchcr.
University instructors,
coaches high school TEACHERS cnca,ons
Most q tho oasneauona listed bofore have developed the
past 10 Years here and there od be
holding ob open Negroes
bat such cases wcrr Tho exception rather than tho rule
The cracking Of INC restrictive employment situation
beginning the remarkable progress Negro CON.
MUMMY has been making in the past 10 years
Properly ownership Negroes shows
Much 81 q ownership desirable
unued bar 10 Negro tenancy property
Negroes however their earliest
acquire piece earliest opportunity
The Negro railroad workers fairly
incomes among the earlier purchasers ~ homes
In state which Icing mAiog parties
Negro while numerically political parties
greatly as has bern pointed cat cartier hs piece
that there whites sul
Of the Negro their party interest
in extending and protecting the basic
he automatically obtains the support thousands
who understand better than others other
of this democracy Va tho Negro
Understanding this fact candidates through the
have devoted themselves advocacy
FEPC legislature passed.
bidding pubic
supreme Court around declaring schools
Minneapolis Negro Frank Wheaton
legislature and elected 90 tho % ether
North where the number ~ Negroes outnubcrcd
elected
him because his black brethren number district
nom which he Wheaton introduced the EVIL which
prohibits exclusion from pubic Accommodations account
religion or creed
Early the century tradition ere