DOCUMENT 9 Researcher Outlines Difficulties Facing African American Women on ADC (1957)

In the 1950s, Winifred Bell, who would later write the first history of the ADC program (Bell 1965), undertook a study of ADC clients at the Adult Psychiatric Clinic in Detroit, Michigan. Here she describes the many difficulties facing four African American women who were trying to secure paid employment. Their struggles demonstrate how racial discrimination limited possibilities for African American women's economic security.