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[CHAPTER 39]
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Business and Professions, 1900-1930. Very often the Negro small business men is little more than a laborer in his own place. Despite the fact that one or more members of his immediate family may be employed in the enterprise--or even when non-family labor is employed--he usually does the more difficult and important tasks that come his way. Though many Negro business men have arisen above this category, the majority of them, nevertheless, are still struggling along on a narrow margin of success and failure as owner-workers.
Census figures for 1910 failed to give the number of Negro businesses in the State, although members of the old free colored class had left enviable records as note brokers, capitalists, bankers, merchant tailors, real estate men, and owners of small businesses--such as groceries, markets, dry-good stores, and other business ventures. Several businesses listed under the heading of occupations, however, provide excellent material for comparing figures on Negro business progress between 1910 and 1930.
In the barber business Negro have been prominent since the early days of slavery when they went about from house to house, rattling their tambourines, and carrying their razors and other tools necessary to their trade. From 1910 to 1930 the number of Negro barbers, hairdressers, and manicurists grew from 708 to 811. Regarded as “just another way of earning a living” at the turn of the century, this occupation has now become a profession. The once dilapidated “hole-in the-wall” is today‟s tonsorial parlor. Yet in regard to white patrons the Negro barber has gradually
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