Employment of Colored Persons in North and South
AN “Open Letter” in the July Century calls attention to the fact, fully supported by evidence, that “aside from barbers, hotel and domestic servants, and a few isolated branches of labor, colored persons find it almost impossible to obtain employment in Northern States. . . . Of the thousands of miles of railway in the North, with its tens of thousands of manipulators, the only work, as a rule, that is open to negroes is that of porters on trains—the most menial and ill-paid occupation within the gift of a railway corporation. . . . And so it is through the entire field of desirable labor in the North—there is no place for the colored man.” It is not so in the South.