Jobs

Negro Jobs" -- jobs traditionally held by blacks, such as busboys, elevator operaters, garbage men, porters, maids, and cooks -- were sought by desperate unemployed whites."
   "Niggers back to the cotton fields, City jobs are for white men."

"And in Mississippi, where blacks traditionally held certain jobs on trains, several unemployed white men , seeking train jobs, ambushed and killed the black workers."

"No jobs for niggers until every white man has a job"- klan-like group called the black shirts paraded with these words on a sign.

1935-1945
Between 1935 and 1945, Douglas Aircraft Company's six plane factories were deemed a "melting pot" because its male and female workforce came from 58 different nations.

1941
A man serves two white patrons at Hertzog's, a seafood restaurant along the waterfront in Washington DC.

1938
This man worked in sugar cane fields.

1939
Men shuck corn on Uncle Henry Garrett's place in Tally Ho, North Carolina.

During the Great Depression whites would fight over these "Black jobs". The whites were more preferred over the blacks and more whites were hired.