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can never count on a steady income that will make it possible for us to plan on having children, knowing that we will be able to provide for their health and education--all these things stand in the way of our having the happy personal and home life which is our right.

But it is worse than that.  We do not even have the right which should belong to every human being--the right to go where we want to go, and live where we want to live.  In the Jim Crow cities in the South, there are separate schools, separate sections in the street cars and theaters and railway cars--in fact separate sections everywhere, for us--but even in the North the damnable Jim Crow keeps us restricted into Negro sections of the cities that become pest-holes and prisons for our people.

Higher Rent for Poorer Houses
Because these Northern cities do not let us live wherever we can find rooms, we are bound into segregated communities like Harlem or Chicago's South Side. The landlords, having us at their mercy, knowing that we cannot live anywhere else, charge us rents that are much higher than the white people have to pay, for the rottenest of decaying slums. Playgrounds and schools are overcrowded and inferior in the Negro sections of town - segregation brings poor housing, tuberculosis, higher costs for food, more malnutrition, lack of playgrounds, more crime and delinquency to the Negro sections.

What kind of home life can we have? What kind of persona life? We can't afford good food, we can't afford good clothes, we can't afford books and movies and radios
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CLAUDIA JONES
Writer-Member of Editorial Staff of the Daily Worker.