Negro Waitresses Tabooed . . .
Harvard Dismisses All her Negro Waitresses
Special Dispatch to the Tribune
BOSTON, March 1,—Negro waitresses are tabooed at Harvard. Just why nobody seems to know, but the three crews that have been working in the freshman dining halls have been given their tickets of leave.
White waitresses, some of them comparatively young, and one or two with bobbed hair, have taken their places. They caused “discontent” is one explanation of the reason for dismissing the negro waitresses.
But it is also said that the suggestion came from the woman’s visiting committee, whose membership reached the conclusion that the “risk” entailed in having white waitresses was no more detrimental than the “discontent” caused by the presence of the negro girls.
[New York Tribune, March 2, 1924, p.1]
Special Dispatch to the Tribune
BOSTON, March 1,—Negro waitresses are tabooed at Harvard. Just why nobody seems to know, but the three crews that have been working in the freshman dining halls have been given their tickets of leave.
White waitresses, some of them comparatively young, and one or two with bobbed hair, have taken their places. They caused “discontent” is one explanation of the reason for dismissing the negro waitresses.
But it is also said that the suggestion came from the woman’s visiting committee, whose membership reached the conclusion that the “risk” entailed in having white waitresses was no more detrimental than the “discontent” caused by the presence of the negro girls.
[New York Tribune, March 2, 1924, p.1]
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