Chicago, Jan. 11—Zero weather and unemployment are driving back to the South thousands of negroes lured North in the last three years by hopes of easy work and big money. They have found neither. Instead they have found racial ?? much closer drawn than in the South and have discovered that they must pay high prices and pay cash for everything. Their food, clothing and housing requirements are much greater than in the South, so they are drifting back in large groups. Investigators say every train for the South carries a group of sadly disillusioned negroes, anxious to get back to the cotton fields., back where they are assured of something to eat and a roof over their heads.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, January 12, 1926. “Goldsboro Is the Gate City of Eastern North Carolina”
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