Identifier: negroinchicagost00chic_0 (find matches)
Title: The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Subjects: African Americans Race riots
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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iciency department and hisstatement was found to be untrue. This bears out the point that Negroes will notsucceed where foremen do not intend them to succeed. Despite occasional statements that the Negro is slow or shiftless, the volumeof evidence before the Commission shows that Negroes are satisfactoryemployees and compare favorably with other racial groups. 4. NEGRO WOMEN rN INDUSTRY Before the war created openings in industry for Negro women, they wereeven more definitely restricted in their choice of occupations than were Negromen. Restricted opportunity is evident from the fact that, in 1910, almosttwo-thirds of the gainfully occupied Negro women in Chicago were engagedin two occupational groups, servants and laundresses not in laundries,these being included among those in domestic and personal service who num-bered more than three-fourths. The enumeration of Negro women gainfullyemployed in Chicago in 1910 classified in the census according to industriesis given in Table XXVII.
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THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY 379 To learn the special problems concerning Negro women in industry, oneconference was devoted to the industries recently opened to them. Repre-sentatives of four establishments employing a total of 1,713 Negro women TABLE XXVII Negro Women Gainfully Occupied in Chicago in 1910,Classified by Industries Industry- Number Percentage ofTotal Manufacturing and mechanical industries.... 998 II 96 I 323 4 163 2 Domestic and personal service: 2,IIS) 78 i,336j 337 4 Total gainfully occupied 8,880 100 TABLE XXVIII Negro Women in Fifty Establishments Classified by Industries in 1920* Industry Number ofEstablishmentsReporting TotalEmployees Total NegroEmployees TotalNegro WomenEmployees Manufacturing: Tanneries I 600 175 SO Iron and steel 3 10,435 I ,729 74 Slaughtering and packing 3 20,990 4 ,818 437 Cooperage 2 327 106 30 Clothing 9 1,405 203 202 3 775 325 325 Box making (paper) 3 995 143 104 3 i,543 95 73 Totals 27 37,070 7 594 i,295 Non-manufacturing: * Hotels 4 55o 250

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