Box 20, Folder 2, Document 55

Box 20, Folder 2, Document 55

INTERVIEW With a Negro Businessman



- - “Negroes must learn to risk their capital’

core tax on aver S106,000, Haw lac eould a gath grade Q What would be vour advice today to a young Nexzra
oscholoy have a job i America that paid lige over $100,000 comming out of school?
a if ar Unless «fie was in busiaess for! himselt? Ae My advice today is, first, ga ta school and get 4 good
Q Why Negroes reluctant to get into bissiness? Are oduedion, F's met up te the teacher to see that hw gets if
“Mis to assume respousibility, do vou think? It's up tothe stucian, Wien a Neg “ETO ch “ld goos to sclinol
“Yes, YG thivk da There have been sae failures in he nivel enicontnite Gn ohis work.
nasinesss Ahere wre “failures incall Uisinesses, Bur Ne- Then, who fie eames out af school, cone out with sone
ip Wari tO cisk their capitol-not’ put iw hivether © thing 06 offer, 4 Gdept that he can sell,
sans and ‘draw cr 4 "per cent or it. whe ony Chibly Q But we hear that the schools available to Negroes often
SR 4 wong theriselyes, pie maké10. or Ws per are inferior, that they don't offer vo good education
i br A “A Well, { think tac the schools that the Nowroes attend
fab We ay it stl 0s sible tiie ‘Negra here in Chicago have about the sanie Facilities us other
“gel Hela 5 OH sae 2 _ sebools. Anyway. it’s not so mich the facilities of the <choal

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_ that ‘count as! the attitude of the student. .
Will demonstrations encourage Negroes to work hard-
_ er, become more self-reliant?
6° ® Not find that the Nearo today" does not have as much “
HR a8 he tind 25 years ago. * , ,
hy is that?



AV thitk the trouble is that “no une tells the Negro that h, y
harass ‘responsible fot himself—being unemployed. When 1 As lp
was a boy nobody helped us, You liad to help yourself; gtd sy
_ you had to learn to “do.” You had to have the yn ten * hoes
vplus. the do-how, pay ie
© My mother: me when L was 17 ‘years old. She es a
Nestiget ae, The reliet people came atid offered us ohn
some relief: but wwe did not accept it, because it was ae
Is.

Sy ca sete shame for people to receive reliet in these
: wete embmrassed just because the relief woman came ~
tous, We did. not want the avighbors to Roow

Hikee ie eit for ourselves. So, we youngsters mide . a)
Si for et da) a

kind: of work did you dott Fon
A sold fram ‘door to door. 1 sturted selling from |
fe door when TL was 9 years old, and have Oe
ever since.

a Q Do you fe that some races have smote ol ee

: ; SERS eS My
Ti po No, ‘It’s all m the desire, Any time that vou
se se be iF pias ao hy A

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brook is BRIGHT= m,
erully optimistic on the future of a Ney
of the tr i Rive A ae
aren oe a ;
on Caminita a ce ea 2; ea, do you think, a yood place for Nephuer r
eae ds 7 the best for the Neg ro in the world.»
ie thee pallens oi Almerica is the best place for aug man in ae world, :
Q Is the Negro basically: wahaler: do you think?
ae bid . A U think the Negro is very unhappy, but i'¢ not Frew,
seregation. He's unhappy because he is unemployed)
Some of the Jeuders will tell him, he's itnempioved be”
rated Chicago, ys wm a Se of thes cause hey a- Ne} and that segregation is the cayen of
ago Association of Commerce and Industry, his: canes ve yed, But that is net true We hay ane

x of the loeal Chamber of Commerce, | work _ ¢mplo in America, and the Negro is the last huest
jA, | work with the Urbar ies, ve t c fived because he doesn’t do any ot, the Wiqina

ie organizations in the cont
sht now to: i op , then, to the Negro’y fhinwer
dt only’ that; He wust work and he mast”
ux oe vhbney and he must pool his money, If he wants tte

gration, he mt bs white people just as he wants white
people te hire h im. *; “(thoy