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Footnotes 1265
Woodson, of, cit,^ pp. 104-11 3.
Reid, of, cit,y Vol. 2, p. 215.
Woodson, of, cit,y pp. 165-183.
Reid, of, cU,y Vol. 2, pp. 283-290.
Cited in ibid,y Vol. 2, p. 296.
Sterner once met a white Farm Security supervisor in the Deep South who com-
plained about the restricted possibilities of having Negro assistants and cooperating freely
with them. He asserted that Negro workers, in general, gained the confidence of Negro
clients much more easily than did white workers. He once had a male Negro assistant
who had been forced to leave because of the resentment in the community. According
to another informant in the community, a young educated Negro who said that he was
the friend of this Negro assistant, the departure had been brought about by a group
of whites who had entered the office of the assistant and told him to get out of town
before a certain time. There was still a female Negro co-worker, but she had to work
outside the town and the daily communications with her had to be made over the
telephone—an arrangement which the white Farm Security official described as
extremely inconvenient.
Thirteenth Census of the Ufitted States: igiOy Pofulationy Vol. IV, pp. 416-419;
Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1^30, Pofulation, Vol. Ill, Part 1, p. 23; Vol.
5, p. 548.
Fifteenth Census of the United States: ipso, Pofuiation, Vol. V, p. 83.
Thirteenth Census of the United States: ipiOy Pofulationy Vol. IV, pp. 426-431 j
Fifteenth Census of the United States: jpso, Pofulation, Vol. V, pp. 572-574.
Laurence J. W, Hayes, The Negro Federal Government Worker (1941), pp.
37-56.
Robert R. Moton, What the Negro Thinks (1929), p. 169.
The total number of Negro federal employees (including custodial workers and
laborers), according to the estimates cited by Hayes (of, cit,, p. 153), increased regularly
—even during the Wilson administration:
Number Per cent
1892 2,000 1.4
1900 1,000 0.4
1912 20,000 5.0
1918 45,000 4.9
*933 53,000 9.8
1938 82,000 9-9
Only a minority of these workers, however, were officials and clerical employees
A very light Negro stenographer told Sterner that she had at first worked in the
stenographic pool of one large Washington agency. After some time she was sent to work
in another building of the same agency where those in charge of assignment did not
know her race. Immediately she was put to work as a private secretary to one of the
white officials. The white girls associated with her. This situation embarrassed her, for
she had not intended to “pass” but feared the expression of resentment from her boss
and the white girls if she told them that she was a Negro.
This has happened, for instance, in the Bureau of the Census owing to the activity
of the Federal Workers’ Union, to which, however, only a minority of the employees
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