Once California Rids Itself of Asiatics, It May Import Negroes to Do Farm Work, Sept. 28, 1920

By the Associated Press. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 28--The possibility of negroes taking the place of Asiatics as farm workers in California was discussed today at the national convention of the industrial and commercial council of the people of Africa today. W.H. Saunders, a Los Angeles delegate, said he was in direct touch with at least 5,000 negores who will come to California to take up truck gardening if persons of oriental races are barred from further colonization in this state. He said workmen would be headed by graduates of the Tuskegee institute. Capital was subscribed for a cooperative company to market products of negro farmers. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1920)