In a 1920 magazine article, C. H. James stated, “Our men, or a large majority of them, appear so content to work for someone else in jobs that offer little or no future, while business opportunities go begging. I would say get the business, the small business of our own people first, and then branch out into the field of open competition, where the question is the goods and the service, and not the color of the man. Then and only then will the American of color be accorded that place accorded men.”
