The task is being tackled strenuously in many areas of the country. because people believe that the present differences between the Negroes and white population are heavily conditioned by environment. It is no service to any of us to have the socalled racial differences stressed without mentioning the remedies which are being successfully applied. Right here in the District of Columbia tremendous advances in the economic and educational standing of the Negro population have been taking place during recent decades. even while a heavy Negro immigration has been under way from areas with less opportunities for Negroes than exist here. Whatever frictions of adjustment to the integration of the schools may be publicized by the forthcoming study of that subject by the Committee on the District of Columbia there is no blinking the fact that despite heavy migration from the outside the Negro in this city has been steadily making himself a more useful and respectable citizen. For example the percentage of Negro females who are clerical workers in the District has increased from 3 percent of the total in 1940 to 23 percent in 1950. and Negro males increased their participation in this type of work from 9 percent to 17 percent in 1950.
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