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12^2 An American Dilemma
term 1941 ; Fred F. Edwards, Appellant vs. The People of the State of Cali-
fornia; November 24, 1941).
2. In attempting to build a labor camp for Southern Negroes near Burlington, New
Jersey, in May, 1942, the Farm Security Administration met the opposition of
the nearby township government. Nevertheless the F.S.A. went right ahead with
its plans and there was no opposition from Congress (including the local con-
gressman). The F.S.A. was supported by the local farmers who needed the labor
which the camp would provide.
Between 1930 and 1940, the Negro population of California increased 53 per
cent.
There are some new agricultural job opportunities on the West Coast—such as in
cotton planting and commercial fruit growing in California—^but these are likely to
go to whites now migrating from the West Plains and from the South, and to Mexicans.
Tannenbaum, for instance, says:
“The South, in a search for solutions, must turn to the gradual migration of the negro
and his replacement by foreign labor. These two factors are the only available means
at hand for the breaking up of emotional concentration upon the negro, the gradual
achievement of objectivity in attitude towards him, the slow softening of the burden
of fear and hate that has seared and seared the South to this very day.” (Frank Tannen-
baum, Darker Phases of the South [1924], p. 182.)
*’^See Woofter, of. cit.y p. 198; John Temple Graves, “The Southern Negro and
the War Crisis,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn, 1942), pp. 5 12-5 13.
28 Woodson, of. cit.y pp. 183-186; W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Hosts of Black Labor,”
Nation (May 9, 1923), pp. 539-541; and James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan
(1930), p. 152.
Chapter 9. Economic Inequality
^
Charles S. Johnson, Edwin R. Embree, and W. W. Alexander, The Collafse of
Cotton Tenancy (1935), pp. 14-15 and 21-22.
“ National Resources Planning Board, National Resources Develofmenty Refort for
1942 (1942), p. 3. Points 6-8 are omitted here as irrelevant to our present discussion.
® This is a world-wide trend ;
for a discussion of the basic principles involved, see
Alva Myrdal, Nation and Family (1941).
^ See The Public Ofinion Quarterly (October, 1939), pp. 586-587 and (Fall, 1941),
P- 475 *
^’See The Public Ofinion Quarterly (October, 1939), p. 592; (March, 1940), p.
91; (September, 1940), p. 547; and (Fall, 1941), p. 477-
® Bulletin of the Bureau of School Service, University of Kentucky, “A Salary Study
for the Lexington Public Schools” (March, 1935), p. 26.
For an excellent example of how a wide variety of these arguments are marshaled
one after the other, we may quote in full a letter to the editor of the Richmond News
Leader concerning differential salaries for school teachers:
“ARGUES NEGRO TEACHERS SHOULD RECEIVE I.ESS
“Fditor of the News Leader:
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