Negro Women Employ Complaints
A Found & Scrambled Diss Poem
Negro Women in Greenville
in a special meeting.
Decided the members of council
get their wives to be cooks
and laundresses.
Their wives, able bodied
have declined to work.
The result being Negro women
and wives of colored soldiers
will be prepared not to work—
refuse employment
without any reason whatever.
Negro Women can get along
without working
for exceedingly difficult families.
For this class of loafers,
Negro Women flatly refuse
to carry the labor.
July 4, 2024

The Greenville News
October 2, 1918, Page 4
Copyright © 2024 Glenis Redmond. Published by permission of the poet.