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April 6, 1935
The Tribune Independent Of Michigan
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
What is this article about?
In Hamtramck, Mrs. Sarah Vaughn leads effort for colored citizens to secure public school jobs proportional to their 6.7% population share, highlighting only one Negro employee amid qualified applicants denied positions.
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HAMTRAMCK CITIZENS SEEK ADDITIONAL SCHOOL JOBS FOR COLORED APPLICANTS
Mrs. Sarah Vaughn, a prominent civic worker of Hamtramck, sounded the keynote Tuesday in a renewed effort of the colored citizens of that city to secure jobs for race applicants in the public schools of Hamtramck. A plan has been launched to organize a Hamtramck Civic Rights Committee, to aid in this crusade.
In a report just released to the press, Mrs. Vaughn, makes the following statements:
"During the past year, I have been investigating the conditions in the public school system of the city of Hamtramck, and find that in plain words the Negro population of Hamtramck is being robbed yearly of many jobs, which are rightfully due them. In the Hamtramck Public Schools there are 369 employees, of this number there is one Negro, C. G. Ringo, who is employed as the head electrician for the system. There are no janitors, teachers or clerks of our race in the system."
"Negroes of Hamtramck compose 6.7 percent of the total population of the city, and if jobs were given on a basis of the population, we should have at least 20 positions in the school system."
"Last year, the School Board claimed that they would not hire any new teachers into the system for the semester, but despite this claim, William Choplin, who at that time was a resident of the city of Highland Park, was employed as a history teacher in the high school; while Louise Conger, a race girl and a resident of Hamtramck, was denied a position in Hamtramck School but arrangements were made to place Miss Conger in an upstate school."
The Board has placed in the offices several new girls as clerks and stenographers, in the past year, but none of these were members of our group, although, we know of and can submit girls qualified to hold the posts.
We, of the colored group of Hamtramck must band together as citizens of Detroit have done and armed with the names of girls and boys qualified to hold these jobs, bring protest to the school board.
This is the only way that we will ever be able to secure the positions for our group."
Mrs. Sarah Vaughn, a prominent civic worker of Hamtramck, sounded the keynote Tuesday in a renewed effort of the colored citizens of that city to secure jobs for race applicants in the public schools of Hamtramck. A plan has been launched to organize a Hamtramck Civic Rights Committee, to aid in this crusade.
In a report just released to the press, Mrs. Vaughn, makes the following statements:
"During the past year, I have been investigating the conditions in the public school system of the city of Hamtramck, and find that in plain words the Negro population of Hamtramck is being robbed yearly of many jobs, which are rightfully due them. In the Hamtramck Public Schools there are 369 employees, of this number there is one Negro, C. G. Ringo, who is employed as the head electrician for the system. There are no janitors, teachers or clerks of our race in the system."
"Negroes of Hamtramck compose 6.7 percent of the total population of the city, and if jobs were given on a basis of the population, we should have at least 20 positions in the school system."
"Last year, the School Board claimed that they would not hire any new teachers into the system for the semester, but despite this claim, William Choplin, who at that time was a resident of the city of Highland Park, was employed as a history teacher in the high school; while Louise Conger, a race girl and a resident of Hamtramck, was denied a position in Hamtramck School but arrangements were made to place Miss Conger in an upstate school."
The Board has placed in the offices several new girls as clerks and stenographers, in the past year, but none of these were members of our group, although, we know of and can submit girls qualified to hold the posts.
We, of the colored group of Hamtramck must band together as citizens of Detroit have done and armed with the names of girls and boys qualified to hold these jobs, bring protest to the school board.
This is the only way that we will ever be able to secure the positions for our group."
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Misfortune
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Racial Discrimination
School Employment
Hamtramck
Civil Rights
Negro Applicants
What entities or persons were involved?
Mrs. Sarah Vaughn
C. G. Ringo
William Choplin
Louise Conger
Where did it happen?
Hamtramck
Story Details
Key Persons
Mrs. Sarah Vaughn
C. G. Ringo
William Choplin
Louise Conger
Location
Hamtramck
Event Date
Past Year
Story Details
Mrs. Sarah Vaughn reports on racial discrimination in Hamtramck public schools, where Negroes, comprising 6.7% of the population, hold only one job despite deserving at least 20. She highlights hiring of non-Negro applicants over qualified Negro candidates and calls for organizing a Civic Rights Committee to protest and secure positions.