Dark Testament by Pauli Murray

Author:Pauli Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631494840
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

All written down in a public record—

Exchanged our pride for a Case Number—

The city’s poor, society’s backwash,

Painfully learning the rules of the destitute.

We have remembered what many have forgotten—

Out of those bitter days comes an epitaph—

Name: Henry Jones (or James Smith or Lucy Brown)

Place of Birth: U.S.A.—Any town or hamlet south of Washington, D.C.

Age: Twenty-three.

Education: A.B., Graduate of City College, Class of ’33

Occupation: Unemployed.

Race: Negro (circled as practically unemployable)

Residence: Formerly YMCA, but vague as to last six months. Probably sleeps in subway or park.

Skills: Majored in Social Science and History. No professional experience; has held part-time jobs as clerical worker, handyman, dishwasher, elevator operator, porter, janitor.

Reason for leaving last job: Reduction in personnel

(last hired, first fired).

Disposition: Certified to W.P.A. at $23.86 per week, where in time he will be identified as a boondoggler! Case closed in Home Relief Files with the following notation:

“In his twenty-fourth year, his youth died!”

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