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Title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls

Author: Jean Turner-Zimmermann

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31615]

Language: English

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Chicago's Black Traffic
in
White Girls

_An article on the Great "White Slave" Question_

_ILLUSTRATED_

By
Mrs. Jean Turner-Zimmermann, M. D.

[Illustration: JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D.]

CHICAGO'S
BLACK TRAFFIC
IN
WHITE GIRLS

_By_
_MRS. JEAN TURNER-ZIMMERMANN, M. D._

_President of the_
CHICAGO RESCUE MISSION and
WOMAN'S SHELTER

AND

_Superintendent of_
The DEPARTMENT OF PURITY AND HEREDITY of the
COOK COUNTY W. C. T. U.

733 Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO

[Illustration: REV. R. IRA STONE

_Superintendent of the Chicago Rescue Mission_]

Foreword

My sole aim in bringing this little pamphlet to you is to definitely call
the attention of the men and women of the Central Western States, and
especially those of the City of Chicago into whose hands it may come, to
the vicious, thoroughly organized white-slave traffic of to-day, and its
attendant, far-reaching, horrible results upon the young man and womanhood
of our Land.

During a constant residence covering seven years of time in the central
slum districts of the West and South Sides of Chicago, I have gained much
actual knowledge of the questions of poverty, drink and prostitution among
the lost men and women of these great neighborhoods, have become
personally acquainted with very many of them, visiting them, listening to
their heart stories and growing to know much of their inside lives, and
have learned a real tender interest and pity for them in their remorseful,
helpless, hopeless condition.

All incidents, references and statistics (as far as possible) h