Word: elevatorman
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...will have to step out." The elevator attendant was talking to one of the doctors?Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white man who will...
...people were shocked who heard of, or were victimized by, the tactics of Elevatorman Herman, what did they think of 101 examples of the same casuistry on a scale too large to be obvious? What did they think of newspapers like the Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude...
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