The Reflector

Issue Number:35

Date: 04/07/1934

p. 02, c. 3

Facts to Remember About Charlottesville

Thomas Sellers

1. The city has a Negro population of 4087.

2. 48.2 of the Negro population of Charlottesville are home owners, according to government statistics released October 14, 1933.

3. There are twenty-four establisheds owned and operated by Negroes, on Main Street, the principal thoroughfare in Charlottesville.

4. Eighty-five per cent of the Negro wage-earners are engaged in domestic labor, which means year round employment and very little variation in wages.

5. There are six Negro Baptist Churches, one Episcopal Church and four "Church of God" missions in this city.

6. The City Laundry, one of the largest establishments of its kind in the city, employs nearly all Negro help inside.

7. There are two public schools for Negroes in Charlottesville with a joint enrollment that exceeds one thousand.

8. Jefferson High School is one of the six accredited high schools in Virginia.

9. "The Reflector", Charlottesville's only Negro Weekly, is also the only miniature Negro Journal of Calendar and Comment in the United States of America. 200 whites are regular subscribers.

10. The Paramount Theatre, located here, is one the few Paramount Houses, in the South, that accomodates Negro patrons. The local theatre employs a Negro manager for the aforementioned patrons, and an all Negro corps of ticket agents, ushers and porters.

11. Charlottesville is the present home of Dr. James Dillard, former Chairman of Rosenwald Funds.

12. More than twenty-five per cent of Jefferson High School graduates are attending, at present, institutes of higher learning.