St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-02-26

OF the majority OF Negro work
ers caused a much wider use
of this labor.
After the war the job oppor.
tunities for Negro workers were
accelerated both by the war
time record, and by agitation
for permanent federal fair en-
plOyment practices commission,
and campaigns for and passage
of local and state FEP laws.
In 1860 approximately 20
years after confinement to nine
principal job categories in Min
nesota, the Negro worker may
be found in over 100 different
types of jobs from the lowest
unskilled occupations to highly
technical posts in a number of
important industries.
Employment opportunities,
with the corresponding in
crease in income, family sta
bility and higher standard
of living, have been general in
the Negro population in Min
nesota.
Although there is not as large
an enrolment in the colleges
as was true through the CT
bill right after World War II,
there are a growing number of
students at college level who
are being sent to school by their
better financially situated par
ents.
There is a great need for col
lege scholarships for Minnesota
Negro youths. An anonymous
donor has established a scholar
ship fund at Phyllis Wheatley
settlement House in Minneap-
oils which has aided several
Negro students. More such
scholarships are needed. There
should be a regular campaign
to have Negro high school
youths try for the large num-
Der of scholarships available to
high school seniors in all Min
nesota high schools. Such a
campaign, of course, should be-
gin while the students are still
in junior high school. Students,
at least many of them, must be
sold on the value of good marks
and good scholarship as other
of the more solid values of edu-
cation.
In this area the two Urban
Leagues their Guilds, with as
sists by Halle Q. Brown Com
munity House and Phyllis
Wheatley Settlement House
could do a real job. And there
Is no reason why church con-
gregations cannot have, as a
part Of their budget, a college
scholarship for some deserving
son or daughter Of a member of
each congregation.
Fraternal groups, Leg i o n
posts and social clubs could
also set up scholarships.
Enrolment of young high
school Negroes and young adu-
Its in vocational schools has
improved during the past year
but it is not large enough. The
combined skills of hand and
mind, the trades which youth
can learn at the Vocational
schools, in each of the Twin
Cities will if pursued faithfully,
provide a good living for the
future, for those who have apti-
tude for and favor a career in
trades and crafts.
Not enough young people,
men especially, take advantage
of the presence of schools in
Minnesota such as Dunwoody
institute, where people come
from every corner of the globe
to attend this famed institu-
ton.
The Negro community con-
tinues to progress in the edu-
cational field as more teach
ers, instructors and board Of
education employees are hired
in both cities.
On the University campus
there are teachers and staff
workers at several levels. Mem
bers of the Negro group are
employed in hospitals, labor
atories and maintenance depart
mentS. On the campus Of Mac
alester there are Negro faculty
members sharing the great re-
sponsibility of instructing the
young men and women.