It said a black person needed special permission to work at any job except farming.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

He was the first black newspaper columnist to have his work appear in major newspapers.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Mississippi also passed a law saying a black person could be forced to work for a white man usually his former owner if he had no other job.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Her business also gave work to many black women.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

"And so they would travel to places where certainly white people in the thirties and forties would not work too much in black communities, because there was so much antagonism between black and white at that time racism toward African Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18