[7] Haynes, George E., The Negro at Work in New York City, New York, 1918, p. 85.
[8] Crossland, W. A., Industrial Conditions among Negroes in St. Louis, St. Louis, 1914, p. 30.
[9] Reed, Ruth, The Negro Women of Gainesville, Georgia, 1921, p. 25.
[10] Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, Springfield Report, 1915-1918.
[11] U. S. Department of Labor, Monthly Labor Review, Aug., 1919, p. 206.
[12] Reed, Ruth, op. cit., p. 44.
[13] Crossland, William A., op. cit., p. 93.
[14] Three Sample Letters of the 5th Grade Domestic Workers of Washington, D. C.
Miss X (The agent)
Dear Friend i am sorry to any that i am confind to bed this week but hope to see you again some day i taken sick last friday but i full fill that other place all right but could not go out saturday.
Daisy
Daer Mrs. X (The agent) daer Madam can you get my husban are job in are lunch room cafe boarding or apt. house he is are well exspierence sheref cook we both would like are job together if could get me are dash (dish) wash place please maggie.
Letter from Bell Jones
Dear Mrs. X (the agent) i am writing you a fue lines to let you here from me i am the lady you got me a home with Mrs. Jones at Smithburg, Md I have a little boy with me you know by the name of Bell Jones i dont want to stay up here much longer and i want you to get me a good home down in Washington for me and my little boy with some good white people with no children and a room in the house for me and my little boy my little boy is a mighty good little boy he is not noisy i want to leave sept. 4 i am tired of this place because there is no cullard people up here they are all white i have not been off the lot since i have been out here please get me a good home dont let it be out of town.
Yours Bell Jones
[15] Salmon, Lucy M., Domestic Service, p. 124.