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social work field. She brought in somebody named Mrs. Lanning. Mrs. Lanning worked at the boats. She was a brave little girl. She was a graduate of Cornell and she worked right at the docks when these boats would come in from the South. She would stand on the docks there at night and finally they gave her some kind of police authority to prevent the wild Negroes from coming in and taking the girls off to nobody knew where on the theory that they had a car and would take them to a nice boarding house.

We had to build up a list of good Negro boarding houses and lodgings where they could stay. Finally we began a program of putting out of business, through the lodging department of the city government, of some of the worst of the lodging houses and some of the worst of the employment offices.

I look at it now and realize that it was a very risky and bold thing for me to be in - a young girl who knew nothing. But innocence protects you. A couple of really evil Negroes whom I had tried to put out of the employment office business did follow me to the house where I was staying one night. I was considerably alarmed because it was relatively late - eleven o'clock or so - and I was alone on a quiet street. I remember thinking, “What shall I do?” What I did was what my father had always recommended that you do. It