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The New South

CHAPTER VII
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White and negro teamsters are employed indiscriminately.

Hundreds of negroes serve as firemen or as engineers of stationary steam engines.

Thousands work in the tobacco factories.
Practically the only distinction made is this: a negro man may work with white men indoors or out, but he may not work indoors by the side of white women except in some subordinate capacity, as porter or waiter.
Occasionally he works with white women out of doors.

Lack of economic success therefore cannot be charged entirely or even primarily to racial discrimination.

Where the negro often fails is in lack of reliability, regularity, and faithfulness.


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