Excerpt from The Colored People of Chicago: An Investigation Made for the Juvenile Protective Association
Many a case on record in the Juvenile Protective Association tells the tale of an educated young negro who failed to find employment as a stenographer, book keeper, or clerk. One rather pathetic story is of a boy graduated from a technical high school last spring. He was sent with other graduates of his class to a big electric company where, in the presence of all his classmates he was told that niggers are not wanted here. The Association has on record another instance where a graduate of a business college was refused a position under similar circumstances. This young man in response to an advertisement went to a large firm to ask for a position as clerk. We take colored help only as laborers, he was told by the manager of a firm supposed to be friendly to the negroes.
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