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exceedingly difficult for families who need cooks and laundresses

2021-06-11 16:59:01.241303+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Twitter thread about a few passages from The Greenville (South Carolina) News, October 2nd 1918

A number of complaints have come to members of Council of negro women who are not at work and who refuse employment when it is offered them, the result being that it is exceedingly difficult for families who need cooks and laundresses to get them.

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