National Affairs: Depressed Negro

That the Negro, North and South, has been harder hit by the Depression than the white man was the gist of a report handed last week to the Department of Labor by the National Urban League. Upon investigation the League found that whites, dropping down the economic scale, have taken jobs normally held by Negroes. Black migration to cities has made a bad situation worse. Declared the League report: "The economic structure of the entire Negro race is in an alarming state of disrepair."

Most newsworthy of the League's findings were figures...

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