The 300,000 Negroes in Manhattan's Harlem, 200,000 others elsewhere in New York State have the vote, ride with whites on busses and trains, do not have to sidle into gutters when white folks pass. But in other ways New York Negroes are little better off than their kin down South. Hotels and restaurants still refuse to serve Negroes (though sometimes they get sued for refusing) ; in the heart of dark Harlem, Negroes are hard put to find jobs in stores where they are welcome buyers. Many a labor union, dominated by white majorities, excludes Negroes outright or does as...
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