{"id":2746,"date":"1957-04-11T23:01:54","date_gmt":"1957-04-11T23:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2013-06-21T22:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:30:49","slug":"types-of-work-vary-reach-to-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1957\/04\/11\/types-of-work-vary-reach-to-professions\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Work Vary \u2014 Reach to Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his survey of black work in Peoria, Bill Conver suggested that &#8220;Negroes are not only laborers and housemaids&#8221; and focused on the question of black social mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Conver looked at the 1956 report of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce\u00a0and found that the list of jobs in the survey showed few non-white workers holding &#8220;supervisory or more responsible positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, large employers in Peoria consistently denied that there were any barriers to black advancement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his survey of black work in Peoria, Bill Conver suggested that &#8220;Negroes are not only laborers and housemaids&#8221; and focused on the question of black social mobility. Conver looked at the 1956 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,156,50,9,24,1],"tags":[167,164,186,187,424,124],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playwright-and-artist","category-segregation-in-the-late-50s","category-juliette-whittaker","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-segregation-desegregation","category-uncategorized","tag-the-negro-in-peoria-series","tag-bill-conver","tag-discrimination","tag-employment","tag-juliette-whittaker","tag-segregation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}