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"discrimination by the state".
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Well, there is wide-spread
discrimination in the state, in employment; because of its
existence the state legislature instituted an inter-
racial commission to study and to work with the agencies
of government, to make recommendations for legislation
and to eliminate the impact of it upon the colored citi-
zens.
As far as religious discrimination is concerned,
there have been some complaints of religious discrimina-
tion in employment, so it is a problem.
You have only to look around you to see where
Negroes are not employed: in the county courthouses of
the state, in the school systems of the state which
still remain predominantly white or all white.
You have only to look around you in Baltinore
City where almost 50 percent of -the population is colored
and see where Negroes are not employed. This is a very
serious problem, the problem of omployinent.
We have had some of our industries in the summer