"I Was Part of the Bronx Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass
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In January 1950, Marvel Cooke, the first black and only woman reporter on the staff of The New York Compass, did a reprise of a series she had done for The Crisis in 1935 with Ella Baker -- the first time this method of employing women emerged. Cooke, alone this time, posed as a domestic worker seeking employment by the hour or for a day on a Bronx street corner, where women gathered to find some kind of employment to find out what working through the "slave mart" system meant for those forced into it.
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The series is often cited or reprinted as exemplary newspaper reportage.
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I-"I Was a Part of the Bronx Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part One in a five-part series in the New York Compass on Cooke's experiences posing as a domestic-for-hire at the Bronx "slave market" of 1950
January 8, 1950
Marvel Cooke, the first black and only woman reporter at the New York Compass in 1950, reprised an earlier ...II-"Where Men Prowl and Women Prey on Needy Job-Seekers"- Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part two in a five-part series in the New York Compass on Marvel Cooke's experiences posing as a domestic day laborer.
January 9, 1950
In this second part of Marvel Cooke's five-part series on the Bronx slave mart, she describes the double threat for ...III-"'Paper Bag Brigade' Learns How to Deal with Gypping Employers" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part three in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass in 1950 on the domestic day labor market in the Bronx
January 10, 1950
Part three of Marvel Cooke's five-part series on the Bronx "slave mart," where she posed as a day laborer seeking ...IV-"'Mrs. LeGree' Hires Only on the Street, Always 'Nice Girls' - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Part four in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass in 1950 on the Bronx "slave mart," where women domestics went to find jobs as day laborers.
January 11, 1950
Part four of Marvel Cooke's five-part series for the New York Compass on the "Bronx slave mart," where women unable ...V-"Some Ways to Kill The Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass | Last in Marvel Cooke's five-part series for The New York Compass on the Bronx slave mart.
January 12, 1950
Some ideas from the Domestic Workers Union for suppressing the resurgence of the "slave markets" of the Bronx, ...