ABSTRACT
Discriminatory hiring practices were once widespread and legally sanctioned. The employment opportunities of college graduates were explicitly contingent on race and gender. A 1942 US government report entitled “National Survey of the Higher Education of Negroes” explains matter-of-factly that:
Even in northern cities there are relatively few of the higher paid occupations in which Negroes are not limited to the service of their own people. A predominantly large proportion of college-trained Negroes go into teaching, and teaching opportunities for Negroes-with a few exceptions in the large cities of the North-are limited to the Negro schools of the South.2
