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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 245 Print image (48K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 245 Print image (48K) |
| THE MARYLAND INTER-RACIAL COMMISSION 15 IV. INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE In this, even less than in the matter of legal status can we expect direct legislative action. Yet it must be emphatically said that lack of industrial, and economic opportunities are at the root of many racial and inter-racial difficulties. So long as any group is engaged in those occupations paying the least wages, it inevitably follows that housing, health and liberal education must be neglected. The increasing cost of these facilities can only be met by opening industrial opportunities to all. Many men and women, otherwise competent, are shut out from the more skilled industries by lack of training for which they are not responsible. They must accept such wages as they may secure in the least skilled industries. There are numerous branches of skilled industries which should be opened to colored youth. We recommend that instruction be given in applied science and the mechanical arts for the particular purpose of training: men and women in the sciences as related to industry. RECOMMENDATION No. 5 That provision be made for facilities for Negro youth to fit themselves by scientific study for increased usefulness in mechanic arts and in scientific industries generally. |