Late to Work? Hire African-American Operators 1942
This ad was published November 3, 1942 by the “Committee on Jobs for Negros in Public Utilities” in the Washington Post calling on the Capital Transit Company to hire African American streetcar and bus operators to alleviate idle cars and buses attributable to the lack of operators.
The ad is signed by a wide variety of prominent leaders with everyone from Congressmen, religious leaders, labor leaders, civil rights leaders and communists. The ad also calls for a mass rally on Nov. 3, 1942 at the Vermont Ave. Baptist Church.
For an article on desegregating Capital Transit, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-fight-agains...
For additional photos, please see set description, “Fighting Capital Transit Racism 1941-55," flic.kr/s/aHsjCrE9RH
Late to Work? Hire African-American Operators 1942
This ad was published November 3, 1942 by the “Committee on Jobs for Negros in Public Utilities” in the Washington Post calling on the Capital Transit Company to hire African American streetcar and bus operators to alleviate idle cars and buses attributable to the lack of operators.
The ad is signed by a wide variety of prominent leaders with everyone from Congressmen, religious leaders, labor leaders, civil rights leaders and communists. The ad also calls for a mass rally on Nov. 3, 1942 at the Vermont Ave. Baptist Church.
For an article on desegregating Capital Transit, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-fight-agains...
For additional photos, please see set description, “Fighting Capital Transit Racism 1941-55," flic.kr/s/aHsjCrE9RH