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



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The Greenville News 
October 2, 1918, Page 4

Copyright © 2024 Glenis Redmond. Published by permission of the poet.