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The Advocate fin i • . i*®l l i r a i li ai M M . N r pi r t r n l a l l l i a (lit-*« « 1LLU8TRATKD FFATUKK 8KCT10N — October 15. 1952 T h e F in e s t W rite rs Sen d T h e ir Sto rie s F ir s t to the Illu s tra te d F e a t u r e Sectio n » il l* N IH «<*> ríe i ion m r o i m i rvr n w im in 44 R E M I N I S C E N C E S ” %<* • < t t t a l l i g THI M \TH I uriTlO N they Could get out of life, theli liom f» were mi crowded and noisy N either th e movie nor th e radio had C H A P T E R II been invented. T h a t I should later work for the S e ttle m e n t W o rk Negro i ve. en te ri 1 my m ind, but lii my youth, ium I it is piutly trm* today, i io pint*«• 1 doubt If I could h ave had a better was more remote than that section of the city in which p rrp aratiofi th an th e settlem en t F o r In those seven years I |ieriwiiin of a different caste lived. I was horn and r e a r nave learned th a t m i y problem * a tt n b - ed on llrooklyn Heights. When Frederick It. I'ratt of | uteri to race are really labor pr<ib- I'ratt Institute (where after leaviiiK colleife I spent a yeur , U ilia ployers of labor, w h ether m en III a secretarial position) asked nil* to look at a model I i or Em women, em i tying w hite or black, tenement his family had Imilt in northern Krooklyn to h. ve a K1 d deal th e sam e |»y- see it it offered possibilities for settlement work, he sent c ho logy talk In m uch th e name way T h e dom estic service problem takes me to an unknown land. on local color, "but th e • latrewie* The Astral, as it was called, was one of the first always th in k tlie sai e th in g th a t model tenements erected in Great er New York It was a good servan t n eglect* her own h i ( ireenpoint, the northernmost ward of llrooklyn. To ] people for h er m ist res*. did however, have two direct Ket there I took a car that I had seen all my life hut nev- I I co I n tacts with Negro life while at ........utered. went for a couple of miles through familiar (Ire en p o in t. and one c them , more I th an an y oth er single th in g, led m e streets, and then explored the unknown. up colored work Suirar refineries gave out their aickish smell, f act o | to T take tie first was th e .ttltu d e o f th e ries loomed larire, and at length (ireenpoint was r e a ch I boy* In our clubs toward th e colored im putation I en coun tered it when ed, ugly hut within view of the river. I climbed four flights of tenement stairs and knocked at the door of an I I took a club to P rospect P a rk O ur route lay through i sm all Negro apartment where a girl from Minneapolis had been liv section, tiw u u ie tt S tre e t, a block or ing while working in the I’ratt library. two of old fram e hou** occupied « K m i , tg In an hour she told me of conditions in my own city by tin* pooit f claa th e m ost b eau tifu l ..Iris 1 have ever of which I was utterly ignorant. I felt humiliated anil seen In my life got on th e c a r ut decided to take up the settlement job. Since then | have G w in n ett Htreet Hhe was ta ll and played the role of the Minneapolis girl in southern towns, slender and dressed i *. golden brown th a t m ade h er * >wn skin talking with my southern white friends and telling them corduroy glow w*th lovely color ) ut the well-to-do Negro. They are never humiliated. T lie fam ilies were sittin g on tlieir stoop*, and as wr passed them , a* They always know all they want to know. p y M A K Y W H I T E O V IN G T O N H u re was a fes y i for settlem en t ■ • believed I .1 bv s a c iin e e and w<*ik in the n in eties, for learning hard work h i* dream m iglit come] w oiklng claas cond ition* by living true am ong tlie workers and sh arin g to W ith th is btrkgroun«. I w otkrd In 't i * C d 'le m c n t for sev n sm all extent In th eir Uve» T o y n th e Cite« en years bee H¿.Il, I -ndnn. Hull House How mile i I helprd h r n eigh b or G reen w ich House .th e lle iu y S treet hood I do not know, not a rreat* R ettiein eilt, t h e s e were « few fa deal b u t I learned m uch m yself | m iliat nam es Mv little plant grew N um ber* of facto ry girls cam e to from five room s to forty, occupying our rlavse* and » l m l h eard tlie n section In th e m odel tenem ent w histle bio at seven In th e m o rn b ill *lt never achieved fam e P ratt ing a * I lav in bed. it was not an In s titu te largely fu rnished th e indetinito person but M ary or te a ch e r*, m aking It a p ractice s t a Am anda or C elia, who was going to do rough work for ten and a h alf tion f.M stud ent* in dom estic aclcn ce hours T h e In stitu te and th e P ra tt fam ily A few child ren were th en In the mills, and * ,.aw one with m angled generously raised th e money I had no serious fin an cial care hand who ond no excuse for what she had done except thut she was and was happy In a growing fam ily so m uch a child »he w anted to play! From th e cover of Selected Sp eech es of Booker T . W ashington.** a of resident * and In th e m any c o n with m ach in ery . I saw th e struggle' copyright photo by C M B attey . tact-* such work gave 1 knew Ja n e for jo t» , th e boycott and th e tragedy Addatit* and h ave never fo rgotten of th e unemployed And I saw h a p though a t a signal, all th e boys * toU om td th em To my am aze h er first p ieie of advice » m e “ If py child ren m ent i learned th a t th ere was j hoi the < htldren with vh >m we Jum ped on th eir sea t* and at th e Negro problem in my v I ha* you w.i it to he m u rounded by sec-] on th e whole ond ta le . blltty you will d o m in a te ( did m uch o f our top * of th eir voices shouted Nig- honestly never th ought of it I ac« »«* happy T hey ln\ A tlie street* H R s * « V * ' s 4 m- *w F * your settlem en t i f you want the ger. nigger, nigger f T h e n , r th ejeep ted th e Negro as I accep ted any U m i -II v thry| H O O K ER T W A SH IN G TO N b est ab ility you m ust allow great .tn.l Its . x r l t e i n n t C o n tin u e d on P a g e F o u r liberty of a ctio n am ong your re s i l,<" ' rnoiiKh to est hii (1 ■> plsee to • W illiam II Baldw in, at speaker* ca r turned Into a w hite n eigh b or-j T lie g am e1 h U- x 'I* T hey r m w from famlllo-i of table, lean in g forw ard looking a t '- o o d . they sal down d en ts ” Ja n e Addam.s*» nam e today Is industrious people c i f fly Irish and W ashington and saying. ‘I worship Was over. am ong the must fu m o u . tlu* G erm an A tm rican *. i ru t to pub th at m an T h e y r.cver played It again with, world B u t perhaps few people ic Achcol learned a little and were' m e. but I carried my will by th reat realize th e in calcu lab le good she up to m isch ief in th en le' * «• hours I T h e boya stole lead pipes. rltm lx'd, h a s done In helping o th ers to e n re t h er th an persuasion T h ey saw S O O N large and glo lfv h eir own work everywhere, walking along th e o u t n o harm in what they did M any |N*o|.le l'an build a id t Í» r - ride coping of our seven story te n e As tim e went on. I realized th ere, tim e l»v using o th ers. Few can r u m ent, hi ought th e cooking teach er was no :>en»onal am m o ty m th eir co m a g e a b itv w ithout dom in atin g to me in te a rs because they had a rt. It was a custom . W hen a H E L O O K E D AT L E G S ! begun hv eating up all th e raw m a-j It ¡colored Jan ito r, oddly enough named W e worked h ard a* th e Oreen* te r la I for th e lesson except th e salt. Ic e o r g e , cam e to take ch arg e of our point settlem en t and we tiled to hi short were very genuine A m erl- Another I model tenem ent, h e becam e the W hen tind tniul W (*klng-clu . cond itions < in toughs, had hut lovable Ailcle Hamlin i iKYputar m an am ong th e boys they got I eir working p ap er* andi T h e b sire fur »». I knowledge was on th e block T h e re was always a Story t)*«an (o earn som ething they se t in t.h • dr group about him . listen in g to his New York had th e n th e S o cia l K e- tled down to i sp e d able life Som e' stories. He was an Individual to fotm Club, an o rg anizatio n c o m p ris-: have don** ell One went to Con-] them T h e re were only four things grcH*. P erh ap s 1 should add. one trig a m em bership o f Intellectuals* T lie Booker W ashingtons and workers I en tered It and was went to ja il. Alvin P ro ic o tt loved, Ills g.ir- j My second d irect Negro con tact so< m put ti i roll its board I was luck v j T h e glrl.i were not so restless, and iten. Ills dog. h lm selt, his throng, th e S o c ia l KVtotm 0)0b.| to Ix'glti my work at a tim e when soon learned to w ill'd baby carriag es I ¡Was cloth es, and colleotini! b ea'itl- “lip from S la v e ry ’ was appearing I liope was in th e air. not when, a* or hold a I odd lei by th e arm ful w om en—n ot tlie women In th e Outlook and our club wanted today. th e .iti.io so h e- recks with It seemed to me th e old suffered to h onor tli* au th o r of It and Iks but th e collecting. th e philosophy of econom ic and psy most. Ho little lould lx* done fori wife. (T h ey were disappointed th e m ! A grand m oth er needs aif etiological col lap e In to h is life ond fl wer c o r I when th e wife proved to be num ber W e believed In |M)llticnl reform a rm ch a ir i.nd a p leasan t window. don walked M idge "Half P in t,' th ree, not num ber two about whom] and elected S e t! I,ow nm yc' We Our grand m oth ers huddled in co r they wer*' reading.) I was tuadcj had a ten em en t house departm ent j ners. th e horor of th e poor house with h er fist nose and fre c k ch airm an of th e com m ittee to a r- th a t abolished th e bulldln t of dark.! hanging over them . T h e m others, les -jid, believe It or sktppy I range for th e dinner. alm ost window less ten em en ts We tin», were oftenC-ad and tired Home. It looks like a plain girl has , "D o not have all th e talk about. talked socialism and single tax and . th e m en drank , and th ere was! noO KEFt him by th e nose (or th e nrst when we read W illiam M orris, or uQthlim a ttra c tiv e Vnd their) "T h e y were dtsap:>otnted when th e condition.* .11 th e rii nth Have con - tim e san g Ills hym n of th e worker, at drim kenn . 1. hut m any were hard wife proved to in* No t. not No 2 Id it ion* in th e North discussed.” j th e In terco lleg ia te SoclaM. t S o c ie ty .1 v o rk ln g a l I used to wonder what'ithout whom they were reading ’* ! T h e se were my ins* tlon s and Didn’t Shine That Night “ Maggie” COMING "P R E T T Y BO Y"