le for there is nothing here for a
colored man, any more.

Please give my name to some one that needs a good man, who is
willing to send transportation for me and wife, or my self. I
probably can make some arrangements to get there in a few days.

Hoping to hear from you in a few days and thanking you for same
before hand.

LETTERS ABOUT BETTER EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

ANNISTON, ALA., April 23, 1917.

_Dear sir:_ Please gave me some infamation about coming north i
can do any kind of work from a truck gardin to farming i would
like to leave here and i cant make no money to leave I ust make
enought to live one please let me here from you at once i want to
get where i can put my children in schol.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., April 25, 1917.

_My dear Sir:_ While reading the Chicago Defender of april 21st I
saw that you was the man to write to four a job as say the paper
I have some children I lost my wife just a year ago and I would
like to get a place where I could proply educate them I am a
bober by trade I been in the work for 20 years study, I dont
drink al all any thing like whiskey I am a church man and all the
children belong to the church too your trully

PITTSBURG, PA., April 26, 1917.

_dear sir:_ your letter was all write this one leaves me all
write i means what is write this is a matter of buisness and no
folishness and joaking in this Please dont think i set down and
write something just because i seen it in your paper for i am a
working man i work for my living dont i am saying just to get a
jobe i no i am south rais man i want some places to send my
children to school my means is that i am to old to old.

_Dear Sir:_ I saw your add in the Chicago Defender for laborers.
I am a young man and want to finish school. I want you to look
out for me a job on the place working morning and evening. I
would like to get a job in some private family so I could
continue taking my piano lesson I can do anything around the
house but drive and can even learn that. Send me the name of the
best High school in Chicago. How is the Wendell Phillips College.
I have finish the grammer school. I cannot come before the middle
of June.