-- | --
Coal, wood and ice | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 19
Dressmaking and millinery | 2 | 2 | 1 | -- | 8
Employment agencies | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
Express and moving vans | 2 | 1 | -- | 1 | 12
Groceries | -- | -- | -- | -- | 36
Hairdressers, etc. | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 8
Hotels and lodging houses | -- | -- | -- | -- | 17
Pool and billiard rooms | -- | -- | -- | -- | 10
Printers | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 5
Restaurant and lunch rooms | -- | -- | -- | -- | 26
Saloons and cafes | -- | -- | -- | -- | 5
Tailoring, pressing, etc. | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | 24
Undertakers | -- | -- | -- | -- | 11
Miscellaneous | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 48
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Totals | 10 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 279
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The attitude of the white purchasing public has had a tremendous
effect on Negro business, because it has failed to forget color in its
business dealings. In many lines of business white people will not
patronize Negroes at all and about two-thirds of all enterprises
depend upon the low purchasing power of the Negro group. The idea that
white people will not trade with them to any considerable extent and
that they must depend upon their own people is so steeped into the
mind of the Negro that he often does not perceive that he is catering
to the whole public, white and black.

FOOTNOTES:

[76] This conclusion is based upon the statements of Negroes that
white people have entered their stores apparently to buy, but beat a
retreat upon finding a Negro in charge. Two Negro proprietors employed
white workmen to call at residences, _etc._, in the operation of their
businesses while they kept in the background. The writer traced out
cases of refusals to rent places to Negro firms. Some of the incidents
would be amusing if they were not tragic.

CHAPTER IV

SOME SAMPLE ENTERPRISES

In the first chapters on Negro business enterprises, the several
classes of establishments were described in order to present a picture
of business among Negroes as a whole. A more concrete ide