I work but dont get but small wedges I am
up bilder of my colord race an love to help one when he dezirs to
better his condishon I want to ast you for a favor of helping me
to get to you an your office to get me a woork to do I want to
learn a trade and I will pay you to look out for me an get me a
job if you kindly will. Please an send me 3 tickets as we three
good woorking mens make the time you can corleck ever weeak pay
for yo at once be cause we meanse buisness now.

MONTGOMERY, ALA., May 19, 1917.

_Dear sir_: I notice in the Chicago defender that you are working
to better the condiction of the colored people of the south. I am
a member of the race & want too come north for to better the
condiction of my famely I have five children my self and a wife &
I want you to seek for me a job please. I will send you the trade
I follows while here in the south. I works in the packing houses
& also wholesale grocers houses. Either one I can do but I rather
the packing the best. you can get a half of dozen womens from
here that want work & wants information about jobs such as
cooking, nurseing & cleaning up or anything else they can do.

PENSACOLA, FLA., April 13, 1917.

_Dear sur_: I ritting to you in order to get in touch with you
about the work for the betterment of the race I shure want to
better my condeshon in the Chicago Defender I seen whear that you
say those wishing to locate in smaller towns with fairly good
wages that what I want to suner the better for me. Answer at
wonce.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Collected under the direction of Emmett J. Scott.

BOOK REVIEWS

_A Century of Negro Migration._ By CARTER G. WOODSON. The Association
for the Study of Negro Life and History, Washington, D. C. Pp. 221.

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movement among the Negroes in America demonstrate the great interest
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