Harry Lumsden : Oral History Project [1979]
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That has brought many, many changes that a lot of people hadn't ob- served. They don't want to admit it. Now before the advent of the Second World War, you could hardly find anything to do...
just a few Pullman porters and a few janitors. All the so- called menial work was done by Europeans, you know. You can imagine who they were, and people didn't get anything. There were a few Negroes in construction work, and most of those Negroes were not American Negroes because American Negroes did not g...o into that type of work.
JW: Where were these people from?
HL: Most of the Negroes that did construction work did that heird construction work; mixing concrete, and stripping the sides of buildings. I've done it, and I know what I'm talking about.
They came from the Hawaiian Islands. See, what happened, they had taken a lot of Portuguese Negroes and colored people from the Cape Verde Islands, and took them out to the Hawaiian Is- lands to work the sugar plantations. Those people emigrated here to San Francisco and they did most of that work.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
That has brought many, many changes that a lot of people hadn't ob- served. They don't want to admit it. Now before the advent of the Second World War, you could hardly find anything to do...
just a few Pullman porters and a few janitors. All the so- called menial work was done by Europeans, you know. You can imagine who they were, and people didn't get anything. There were a few Negroes in construction work, and most of those Negroes were not American Negroes because American Negroes did not g...o into that type of work.
JW: Where were these people from?
HL: Most of the Negroes that did construction work did that heird construction work; mixing concrete, and stripping the sides of buildings. I've done it, and I know what I'm talking about.
They came from the Hawaiian Islands. See, what happened, they had taken a lot of Portuguese Negroes and colored people from the Cape Verde Islands, and took them out to the Hawaiian Is- lands to work the sugar plantations. Those people emigrated here to San Francisco and they did most of that work.
What to read after Harry Lumsden : Oral History Project [1979]?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society to read onlineMoreLess
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