Source: Chicago Defender, letter to the editor, 29 July 1933, pg. 14.
CHICAGO, July 25.—Recently my family and I went to the World's Fair. We arrived there at about 11:15 in the morning and left for home at about 2:30. During that time down there we did not see more than six other Colored people besides ourselves. I was there on the opening day also, and I did not see many of our people at that time. What is the matter with the fair and our people? They don't seem very enthusiastic, as I saw more of our Race perched on the wide veranda of the Field museum waiting for the Balbo flyers than I saw in the flourishing fair.
Somehow or other I don't quite blame our Race for not supporting the fair, because our Race men had nothing to do with the building of it, and none of our people got good paying jobs there. The jobs that some of the women got in the lavatories paid 10 and 15 cents in two and three days time. Another thing that I do not want to leave out is the way that our Race is treated in the casinos. The waitresses do not want to serve you and they all make it known that they do not want you in the place. But I was satisfied with a hamburger and a stein of root beer and there were thousands of others, of both races who felt the same way.
Of course, the fair is educational. There are religious places for religious people, there are scientific places for people who like science and there are many other different kinds of places for people who like to know things about the subjects shown. But I hope that the next time I go I will see more of my people there, as I don't always like to be the lone wolf.
