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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 4
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ELLAYOR CLUE io Selma. QR courte not recali the nunies 0: the
er. nurses fran whom she cbtained this informetion, .
aT SELMA, ALABAMA:
oe. advisea that she is supervisor of ail nursing activities; tiiat none of
the nurses on either the day or nisht shift had ucntioncd to her any-:
thing relative to ELEANOR CIUBS that any of the negro emloyecs o1 th:
= hospital miht belong to. She stated that as far as she kacws these
clubs are not in existence in Selma and further that none of the negro
employees at the hospital have given any trouble or is.cicated thut
they intended to quit or strike for hicher wages because they are
members of suck clubs.
at the Aang, Mesorial
hospital, adviseathat the hos ltal employs about eivht negrocs, four
f of whom are male orderlics ana four of wham are maids; that none o1 them
have ever given any trouble whatsoever or inulicated, as far as he knows,
to anyone that they intendec to quit their jobs because they are ewbers
of the subject organization. Fe advised th t he heard rumor to the
a effect that subjcct organization is in existence in Celna, but belicves
: to be mere 1ale gossip as nothing specific has ever developea. ~
ut the ning
; :emorial Hosrital, advised that the hospita i¢ Lollowing
y neproes:
“he statec that none of the above nunted negrocs has ever
riven any trouble and have always tended to their jo s. according to
qua. none of thum has ever indicated any dicsatisfugtiosg ma
ie amount of wages at the time they are paid off by her.
vel advisec that she heard a goud deal of rumor during the sunmcr of lyde
‘ that ELEaNOR CLUBS existed in Selma, but does not belicve that this
co rumor had any foundation in fact.
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cima Tolice Dujartment, aavised a
that ne hus |card several rumcrs of the existence of ELLANUH CLUBS in
i the past; that during the summer of 1942 he received numerous complaints
* to the effect that the negro maids and cooks were jembore of this club,
He advised thut both he and kis 22n have made an exhaustive investi-
gation to Getermine if such clubs were in existence in Selma, but to
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