A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield

Author:Claire Hartfield [Hartfield, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Captioned “A Negro Amateur Baseball Team,” this photo shows the Swift Premiums.

Jackson further parlayed the desire of the packers and other manufacturing business owners to win the hearts and minds of their black employees, setting up a host of company-sponsored social groups. Thousands of fans spent lazy summer evenings rooting for their family and friends on teams in an industrial baseball league that included the Swift Premiums. Others proudly gave formal concerts in company-sponsored singing groups. One meatpacking business owner handed out free YMCA memberships to black workers after one year of employment. Migrants responded with enthusiasm. One of them recalled, “The packing houses in Chicago for a while seemed to be everything.” Another man summed up his experience in Chicago more broadly: the “place [is] just full of life.”

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