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Every Tenth American is a Negro

Thirteen million Negroes are citizens of the United States.

Out of every hundred Negroes, 90 are unskilled...41 have been able to get less than five years' education. 

Under pressures of war, Negroes have been moving northward and cityward by the thousands. This mass migration has brought serious social and economic problems ... labor shortages in the South ... race riots and "hate strikes" in the industrial centers. Moreover, the maladjusted migrants have been targets of subversive elements that have regarded them a fertile field for their propaganda.

Our self interest as a Nation is involved, as well as our sympathetic concern, because these things affect war production and our social and economic structure. They also affect the intricate task of rebuilding the post-war world. 

But if we enable the Negro to become a leader in his community, at once we have a new instrument for attacking unrest, intolerance, racial misunderstanding. The Negro then becomes a moving force for better race relations in every American community. 

The record proves this.

[[image - black and white photo of a statue, with the base reading:
BOOKER T WASHINGTON
1856   1915
HE LIFTED THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE FROM HIS PEOPLE AND POINTED THE WAY TO PROGRESS THROUGH EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY]]

A timely, realistic approach to a major American problem ...