Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-09-30 | Page 14 | Negro Women Lead Exodus

NEGRO WOMEN JOMEN LEAD EXODUS Better Work Conditions and Schools Draw Darkies North CHICAGO Sept That CAP 29 AP negro women for or b conditIons condition for or themselves e and their husbands and better bUter and other ad for their children ar are behind the of at southern negro negros from the plan plan- plantations plantations to the northern cities clUes Is the conclusion of at o lies Re DrY Dr W Y t A AC AC AC C Hughes Hughe superintendent of ot the department of negro work ark of at the Methodist Episcopal church Dr Hughes himself of oI negro blood has lIas made a wide Ide stud studs of tho conditions condition and Sons re causing ti-c ti southern n negroes groes to migrate to time the north cities and factories of the I Behind the Industrious working hird-working working negro mm mn In this pres pros present present ent migration Is the negro Ire w Ifo and mother says Bays Dr Hughes Th l The constant dread that a son or ora ora ora a husband will say too much Is I Ibare the thing that is 11 wearing thread thread- threadbare bare barp the nen nerses of oI the tIme negro no wo women o- o omen men of the south Added to this Is the lack of opportunity for tor her ler child and she he Is the driving power south of the present movement front from the tIme I Illinois seem seems to be the tile ored b a I locality according to Dr Hughes More lore than negros hate hase ha eleft left farms In Georgia alone olano hp hip declared A late lale un suney ey of negro congregations In rural communities of the Atlanta conference substantiate substantiates substantiate the tho estimate that 2500 ne- ne negros negros ne negros gros hal hae ha e left Ilk hIkes county alone W Y Long Yong of Clemson collego college ha haq found that 60 50 had left 1 41 l I counties The delta regions region oI of Mississippi inthe lost 12 workmen In the last six slit months of at 1922 1923 I Dr Hughes has found many cases of at team team- work team ark on the part Dart of at negroes who want wanted I Iod ed od to go north By pooling their me- me re resources sources a number send one on or two ct Ci their group north and these In turn send most of at their wages ngee back to bring up the remainder un