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NEGROES MAKING DEMANDSAsk Rights on Railroads “Equal to the More Favored Class.'’ilI-Vi-wspaper Union News ffcrrie*.Shreveport. La.—Cop left of a lengthy petition. signed by a committee representing several hundred negroes of Shreveport, were filed with the local representatives of all railroads entering this city, demanding for negro passengers accomodations of ’’the same class and quality as are provided for the most favored class of travelers. Among the things specifically demanded by the negroes are:Opportunity to purchase food at railroad restaurants and courteous treatment while doing so: commodious and properly equipped waiting rooms; cars like those equipped for white passengers; either sleeping car accomodations or reclining chair cars; steel cars for negroes whenever they are provided for whites; removal of news butchers from negro coaches; the transportation of section hands in cars other than those assigned to negroes. permission for lunch vendors to enter negro coaches and dispose of their lunches, and “such regulations as will protect negro passengers from the rudeness and Insults of employees of the railroad.The negroes, in their petition, complain of discrimination against their race and In favor of the whites in matters of the sale of tickets; declare they are seldom permitted tu buy food at railroad restaurants, and. if they do. must take it off and eat it; assert that “the harshness of speech of many ticket sellers, directed studiously and specifically to negro passengers, is provocative of needless friction and bitterness. Say that in Ihe South negroes are prohibited from riding in sleeping cars, even when they holdsleeping car tickets, and charge they are thrust into worn out and dilapidated cars, barren of conveniences. The petition is signed by a committee of six, and approved by aTl of the officers of the negro business league. Transportation men are at a loss what c to rie with the document.
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The Rice Belt Journal
Welsh, Louisiana, US
Fri, Jul 31, 1914
Page 10
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