National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers, 1916- 1943
Collection Number: 5584
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers, 1916- 1943
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5584
Abstract:
These are facsimile documents gathered by Professors James Gross and Cletus Daniel
for their esearch project on Black Workers. These records were selected from many
others and in each case by no means represent the complete series held by the National
Archives. Researchers wishing to pursue further study in a particular series are advised
to obtain the relevant series number (such numbers are stamped on the back of each
document) and refer to it when attempting to locate the series at NARS. Use of this
collection is restricted to term paper references for Cornell undergraduates until
otherwise specified.
Creator:
United States. National Archives and Records Service
Quanitities:
15 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers
#5584. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
United States. National Archives and Records Service
Subjects:
African Americans -- History -- Sources
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
National Recovery Administration. Labor Advisory Board (NRA-LAB)
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 9 page mimeo entitled, "The NRA and the Negro Worker," by Gustov Peck; Correspondence
re request of investigation into treatment and living and labor conditions of farm
laborers in the Sugar Belt of Louisiana; Requests for changes in codes; re reasons
for North and South wage differentials; re question of Negro representation on Advisory
Board; re codes for lumber and timber industry, statement (10 pages) of Negro Industrial
League concerning the affect of Negro labor
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
NRA-LAB - Subject File of "Negro Displacement" -
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Matthew F. Boyd, Assistant Labor Advisor of the Board re the displacement
of Negroes under the NRA in various localities; 7 page mimeo "Conclusions from Survey
in Alabama of the Effect of the Operations of the NRA Code on Negro Labor;" 6 page
mimeo, "A Study of the Position of Negro Workers Under the National Industrial Recovery
Act;" "The Subnormal Negro and the Subnormal Code."
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
NRA-LAB - Subject File - "Negro Labor" -
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Rose Schneiderman, member, Labor Advisory Board and others re
Negro representative to be placed on the Board; wages of Negroes in various industries;
discrimination against Negroes in unions
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
NRA-LAB - "Negro Labor" -
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re the displacement of Negroes due to the payment of code wages and
hours; "Statement of the Negro Industrial League concerning the Code of Fair Competition
for the Cotton Textile Industry"
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
NRA-LAB - "Regional Differentials"
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re the wage differentials between Black and white laborers
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
NRA-LAB - "Southern" -
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re skilled and unskilled labor in the south; 3 page mimeo "Objection
to Minimum Wage Discrimination Against Negro Workers," by General Secretary of the
National Consumer's League
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
NRA-LAB
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re wage differentials (regional and racial); code definition of gin
workers; request for exemptions under the code
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
NRA - General -
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1934-1943 |
Scope and Contents
7 page mimeo "Excerpts from the Statement of John P. Davis, Given at the Hearing on
Employment Provisions in Codes of Fair Competition on February 2, 1935;" Differentials-geographic;
several pages of testimony re strike situation at Packard Motor Company because of
race issue
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
NRA - Report -
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
Includes "Report of the Agriculture Committee of the Inter-Departmental Group Concerned
with the Special Problem of Negroes, May 1934," 16 pages
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
NRA - Miscellaneous Minutes -
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Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of meetings of the Inter-Departmental Group concerned with the special
problems of Negroes, March 2, 30, 1934; b) This section contains general correspondence
of A.R. Forbush, Chief Correspondence Division, NRA (and others) filed in alphabetical
order - Includes appeal letters and documents for economic relief re unfair conditions
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Box 2 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
A -
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Black and white individuals, organization, American Legion, AME
Church, Mason Telegraph, to Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson and NRA requesting
emergency relief from economic conditions, racial discrimination, displacement of
Black workers due to minimum wage, alleged code violation, general population, coal,
railroad, cotton industry, and requesting appointment of Blacks to NRA-LAB. Replies
by Forbush and other officials in the agency.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
American Consolidated Trades Council -
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1926-1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Chicago Colored Plumbers Protective Association, predecessor to
American Consolidated Trades Council, a Black building trades association, to United
Association of Journeyman Plumbers and Steam Fitters. President John Coefield, Building
Committee Provident Hospital and Training School; President M.J. McDonough, Building
Trades Department, AFL; Chicago Federation of Labor; Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor seeking end to racial discrimination in building trades with negative results.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
B
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1932-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Black clergy and the Baptist Minister's Conference of New York
requesting FDR, General Johnson, NRA provide emergency relief from economic conditions,
racial discrimination, displacement of Black workers due to increase minimum wage,
alleged code violation, in general, domestics, building trades and requests for appointment
of Blacks to the NRA-LAB.
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
C
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Senator Capper of Kansas and organizations such as the Churches
of Christ, Citizens Taxpayer's Association, Coopers Curtain's Draperies and Linens,
Urban League and NAACP of Kansas to General Johnson, FDR and NRA for emergency relief
from adverse economic conditions, racial discrimination, wages displacement of Back
workers due to increase in minimum wage, alleged code violation and for appointment
of Black to NRA-LAB.
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
D
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence by worker in Charleston, S.C. regarding exploitation of white and Black
workers by Planters Fertilizer Company through wage cuts of 35 and 50 percent despite
rise of sale price and urging General Hugh Johnson to correct this situation; also
from other individuals and organizations: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Dutchess County
Department of Child Welfare, Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce to FDR, General Hugh
Johnson, NRA, requesting relief from economic conditions, displacement due to minimum
wage increase, alleged codes of fair practices violations in steel, railroads, brick
works, AFL, and for appointment of Blacks to LAB and Consumer Advisory Board.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
E
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals and organizations, Urban League sponsored Emergency
Advisory Council of Tampa, Trenton and Atlanta, relief from economic conditions, racial
discriminations and for appointment of Black to NRA-LAB.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
F
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals requesting relief from economic conditions; letter
from merchant requesting investigation of unfair labor practices of planters and farmers
in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana for forced trade at employer owned stores, use of
merchandise as wage substitute practice formerly used exclusively against Blacks,
threatens independent merchants. Response as to legality of practice.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
G
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence from individuals requesting relief from economic conditions; letter
to General Hugh Johnson from Black steel worker and former policeman in Gary, Indiana,
describes economic conditions, warning of communist.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
H-I
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1933-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals requesting relief from economic conditions; from organizations
- Industrial Council of Los Angeles; Insurance Agents Relief Association of Baltimore;
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Kansas City and the Iroquois Democratic
Club of Rochester.
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
J
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Joint Committee for National Recovery; Baptist clergyman; Congressman
Oscar DePriest to FDR, General Hugh Johnson, NRA for relief from economic conditions
and protesting dismissal of Black administrator, Mabel J. Byrd and payment of veterans
benefits.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
K
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals and organizations including Kansas State Association
of Colored Women requesting relief from economic conditions.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
L
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Laboring men's Protective Association to General Johnson and reply;
cites racial discrimination and request for appointment of Black to NRA.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
M
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence requesting relief from economic conditions in fertilizer, tobacco,
laundry and cleaning, and agricultural industries
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Box 3 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
N
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals and organizations - National Association of Colored
Women, National Council of World War Vets, Negro Industrial League, National Technical
Association to FDR, General Johnson, NRA, citing economic conditions, racial discrimination
in employment and wages, displacement of Black workers by whites, alleged code violations,
requesting Federal intervention.
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re displacement of Negroes under NRA codes; 19 page mimeo, "NAACP,
1932, 23rd Annual Report;" requests for exemptions; 3 page telegram to President Roosevelt
from Wilkins re discrimination with codes; requests for appointments of Blacks to
NRA-LAB
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
National Consumers League
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence citing Black worker displacement by whites in Atlanta, Georgia area;
also minimum wage, discrimination, exemptions of apprenticeships and unskilled laborers
from Code of Fair Practice; for appointment of Black to NRA-LAB.
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
National Urban League
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to NRA and Frances Perkins supporting uni-level wage plans for establishment
of Emergency Advisory Councils; to Sidney Hillman, Labor Advisory Board citing racial
discrimination, Code of Fair Competition violation by Scripto Manufacturing Company
of Atlanta, memo from the company explaining that due to Black worker inefficiency
they are to be paid less than white workers, also warns of possible job displacement.
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
P
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from individuals and Philadelphia Tribune citing economic conditions,
racial discrimination in employment and wages displacement of Black workers, code
violations, requesting Federal alleviation by General Johnson, NRA-LAB. (33-? Second
date cut off)
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Pullman Company
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1926-1933 |
Scope and Contents
U.S. Board of Mediation, case documents - Pullman Company vs. Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters - includes official statements; correspondence between A. Philip Randolph
and others, forms, bulletins; 15 page letter from Randolph to E.F. Carry, President,
Pullman Company detailing history of the Brotherhood (6/9/27); broadsides, clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Pullman Company
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1926-1933 |
Scope and Contents
U.S. Board of Mediation, case documents - Pullman Company vs. Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters - includes official statements; correspondence between A. Philip Randolph
and others, forms, bulletins; 15 page letter from Randolph to E.F. Carry, President,
Pullman Company detailing history of the Brotherhood (6/9/27); broadsides, clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
R
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding economic conditions, racial and marital discrimination seeking
relief through NRA
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
S
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence citing racial and economic conditions, list of demands from Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union and letter from Secretary NRA Compliance Board, Columbus,
Georgia, informing General Johnson of plans by National Chamber of Commerce to establish
25% of 30% wage differential of Black workers by whites. Request for paid administrator
and/or inspector.
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
T
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1933-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re race discrimination within the industry codes; 18 page mimeo, "Tuskegees'
Service in National Recovery;" and routine correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
U
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
routine
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
W
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
routine correspondence re discrimination
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Y
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re exploitation of household servants; from various YMCA organizations
re discrimination in employment
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Box 4 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Atlantic Coast Line
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1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Baltimore and Ohio
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1918-1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Boston and Albany
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1918 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Chesapeake and Ohio
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1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Chicago Lines
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Chicago Lines
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Chicago Lines
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Erie Railroad
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1918-1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Illinois Central
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Lehigh Valley
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
11a- Long Island Railroad (1919)
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Louisville and Nashville
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1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Missouri Pacific
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1918-1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
New York Central Railroad
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1918-1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Pennsylvania Railroad
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1918-1919 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Pullman Company
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1919-1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Richmond, Fredericksburg Railroad
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1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Santa Fe Railroad
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
18a - Southern Pacific (1918)
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Southern Railroad
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1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Union Pacific Railroad
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1920 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Washington Terminal
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1918 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Western Maryland Railroad
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1919 |
Box 5 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Blue Crab Industry
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
includes reports by the NRA Division of Research and Planning on the industry; Correspondence
and memos, petitions re minimum wage for crab packers
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Construction Industry
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, re reduction of minimum wage in this industry
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Cotton Industry
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, memos, reports, re classification of cotton gin workers, whether its
industrial or agricultural
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Tobacco Industry
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1931-1935 |
Scope and Contents
104 page manuscript. "Negro Labor in the Tobacco Industry in North Carolina" by C.
Tineley Willis, 1931; correspondence re north/south wage differentials and miscellaneous,
1931-1935
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Tobacco Industry
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1931-1935 |
Scope and Contents
104 page manuscript. "Negro Labor in the Tobacco Industry in North Carolina" by C.
Tineley Willis, 1931; correspondence re north/south wage differentials and miscellaneous,
1931-1935
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Box 6 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Auction and Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Industry, NRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
December 28, 1933
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
China Clay Producing Industry
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
December 13, 1933 (incomplete)
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Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Cigar Manufacturing Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
January 10, 1934 (Incomplete) 3a- Cinders, Ashes and Scavenger Industry, NRA (December
6 1933)
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Cotton Bale Covering Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
April 23, 1934
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Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Cotton Compress and Warehouse Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
September 25, 1934
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Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Cotton Garment Industry, NRA/NIRA
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
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Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Cotton Garment Industry, NRA/NIRA
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
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Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Cotton Garment Industry, NRA/NIRA
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
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Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Cotton Garment Industry, NRA/NIRA
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
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Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Cotton Pickery Industry, NRA
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
January 8, 1935
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Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Cotton Pickery Industry, NIRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
March 10, 1934
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Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Cotton Seed Oil Refining Industry, NIRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
December 19, 1933
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Box 7 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Cotton Textile Industry, NRA
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Cotton Textile Industry, NRA
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Feed Manufacturing Industry, NRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
December 16. 1933 3a- Fertilizer Industry, NRA (June 6 1933)
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Fishery Industry, NIRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
May 31 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributive Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
January 8 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Hotel and Restaurant Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
August 20, 1934 6a- Ice Industry, NRA (9/8/33)
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Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Laundry Industry, NIRA 11/20 and 21/23
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Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Leaf Tobacco Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
March 21 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Machined Waste Manufacturing Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
March 21, 1934
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Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Oyster Industry, NIRA
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
May 7, 1935
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Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Oyster Shell Crushers Industry, NIRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
March 9, 1934
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Box 8 |
National Recovery Administration
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Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Paper Shell Pecan Industry, NIRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
October 23, 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Pecan Shelling Industry, NRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
November 27, 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Poultry (Live) Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
December 8, 1934
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Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Pulpwood Industry, NRA; NIRA
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
NRA: June 5, 1934 NIRA: May 22, 1935
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Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Raw Cotton Trade Industry, NRA
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
January 25, 1935
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Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Raw Peanut Milling Industry, NRA
|
1933 |
Scope and Contents
October 20, 1933 6a - Retail Merchandising Industry, NRA 7/2/1934 6b - Retail Solid
Fuel Industry, NRA 11/13/33
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Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Rubber Tire Manufacturing Industry, NRA
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
August 20, 1934 7a - Scrap, Iron, Non Ferrous Industry, NRA 10/2/1934
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Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Soap and Glycerin Industry, NRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
October 5, 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Southern Rice Millers Industry, NRA
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
September 5 and 7 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Structural Clay Products Industry, NRA
|
1933 |
Scope and Contents
August 23, 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 11 |
Taxicab Industry, NIRA
|
1934 |
Scope and Contents
February 13 1934
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Box 8 | Folder 12 |
Vitrified Clay Sewer Pipe Manufacturing Industry, NRA
|
1933 |
Scope and Contents
October 30, 1933 12a - Waste Material Industry, NRA, October 11, 1933
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Box 8 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous Hearing - NIRA - Employment Provisions in Codes of Fair Competition
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
February 1, 2 1935
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Box 9 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
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Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Agriculture
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
United States government pamphlet on slums and housing with special emphasis on New
York City and selected references on housing. Also speech on the Black farmer and
the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1936
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Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Black Employment Problems by Specific Industries-
|
1933-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment
in the steel, automobile, and textile industries. Proposed fair competition industry
code for the laundry and cleaning service workers. Includes statistics for Ohio and
Detroit industries and employees divided by race
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Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Civilian Conservation Corps - Brown, Edgar -
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1934-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Requests for information about Blacks and the New Deal. Favorable information to be
used to swing Blacks to the Democratic political party.
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Box 9 | Folder 4 |
Civilian Conservation Corps
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re Black job applicants requesting aid to secure employment in the
Civilian Conservation Corps
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Box 9 | Folder 5 |
Commerce, Department of - Jones, Eugene Kinckle
|
1935-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Requests for information on Blacks in the New Deal
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Box 9 | Folder 6 |
Conferences
|
1939-1941 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re training and employment of Blacks for national defense industries
in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Employment problems of the Blacks in Trenton, NJ, Los
Angeles; Wilmington, Indianapolis, Chicago, and Little Rock. Speech on the place of
Blacks in the Employment Security Program in Illinois Speech on training needs and
employment opportunity in the day workers and personal service fields. Proceedings
of the second National Conference on the problems of the Blacks and Black Youth. Speech
on the U.S. Employment Service and the Black job applicant.
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Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Differentials - Racial and Wages -
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment.
Reports on racial and wage differentials due to the fair competition industry codes
of the NRA
|
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Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Elevator Operators -
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1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning alleged discrimination against Black elevator operators
in the various federal buildings in Washington, DC
|
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Box 9 | Folder 9 |
Employment Security -
|
1941 |
Scope and Contents
Proceedings of the Institute on Routine documents
|
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Box 9 | Folder 10 |
Farm Credit Administration
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the Farm Credit Administration programs available to Blacks
including emergency relief and employment. Letters from Black job applicants requesting
aid in securing employment
|
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Box 9 | Folder 11 |
Federal Security Agency - Social Security Board, Maryland
|
1941-1942 |
Scope and Contents
Information about Blacks in National Defense and Industry. Alleged racial discrimination
in Maryland. Includes statistics on industry and employees. Describes attitudes towards
Black employees.
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Box 10 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
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Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Federal Security Agency - Social Security Board, Region Seven -
|
1941-1942 |
Scope and Contents
Includes material on national defense training and employment for Blacks in various
industries including aircraft, automobile, chemical, communications, construction,
electrical, iron and steel, metal and shipbuilding in the south. Discrimination against
Blacks by labor unions and employers. Majority of documents from the Seventh Regional
Labor Supply Committee which monitors six southern states including Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Includes reports and statistics.
|
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Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Federal Security Agency - Social Security Board, Region Seven
|
1941-1942 |
Scope and Contents
Includes material on national defense training and employment for Blacks in various
industries including aircraft, automobile, chemical, communications, construction,
electrical, iron and steel, metal and shipbuilding in the south. Discrimination against
Blacks by labor unions and employers. Majority of documents from the Seventh Regional
Labor Supply Committee which monitors six southern states including Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Includes reports and statistics.
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Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Illinois Central Railroad - Killing of Black Firemen
|
1933-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Newspaper and magazine articles describing the murders of Black railroad firemen by
white railroad workers who wanted their jobs. Informal paper on immigrant unskilled
construction labor and the formation of the International Hod Carriers, Building and
Common Laborers Union of America
|
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Box 10 | Folder 4 |
Interior, Department of - Conference of Youth Leaders
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Routine documentation
|
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Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Interior, Department of - Robert C. Weaver -
|
1933-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning discrimination against Blacks in a Federal Emergency Relief
Administration project in Florida and in Public Works Administration Projects at Cleveland,
Ohio; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina;
New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nashville, Tennessee. Agreements concerning the staffing
of Black workers on Public Works Administration projects. Reports on wages paid to
skilled, semi-skilled and un-skilled Black labor on these PWA projects. Report on
the Tobacco Industry in North Carolina.
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Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Interior, Department of - Office of Education -
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1933-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning an educational program designed as emergency relief projects
for Blacks. News Release, "South Faces Difficult Problem Financing Schools, Committee
finds," May 11, 1934- (Findings of the committee on financial support of the National
Conference on the Education of Blacks. Includes statistics on the funding of public
schools population, per capita income, teachers salaries, per student spending, comparative
analysis of Black and white schools and their students and between the south and the
rest of the United States); information on the Public Works Administration and federal
emergency relief projects available to Black public schools. Projects include construction,
vocational training, vocational rehabilitation, adult education and preschool education
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Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Interior, Department of - Office of Education - Survey Opportunities for Vocational
education and Guidance for Blacks -
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1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Survey
of Opportunities for Vocational Education and Vocational Guidance of Blacks. Black
job applicants requests aid to secure employment in this project.
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Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Interstate Commerce Commission
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re the formulation of rules for protection of Blacks using buses and
trucks
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Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Labor Department - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Luncheon Club
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1937 |
Scope and Contents
Routine announcements
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Box 10 | Folder 10 |
Labor Department - Children's Bureau -
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1922-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Information on child labor, migrants, welfare and social security, services relating
to youths, both Black and white; re Black delinquent youth not properly placed in
correctional institution due to lack of space and racial segregation. Includes statistics
on population,, delinquents and types of crimes committee by Black youth; Bibliography
of publications by the Children's Bureau about working mothers and youth with specific
information on Blacks.
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Box 10 | Folder 11 |
Labor Department - Conciliation Service -
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1932-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence alleging discrimination against Blacks in employment by private sector
employers and labor unions in Chicago, Illinois and Indiana. Discrimination by International
Longshoremen's Association in Texas. Alleged discrimination against Blacks on Works
Progress Administration projects and Public Works Administration projects; Memorandum
listing Black political, educational, and social leaders to be invited to the ceremony
dedicating the new Labor Department Building.
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Box 10 | Folder 12 |
Labor Department - Conciliation Service - Joint Conference Committee of the Community
Progressive Black Painters Union -
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1939 |
Scope and Contents
Documents re a New York Black painters labor union allege discrimination against Blacks
in private sector employment and federal emergency relief programs. Recommendation
from Lawrence Oxley for the Labor Department to cease relations with the Committee.
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Box 11 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
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Box 11 | Folder 1 |
Labor Department - Division of Labor Standards - Apprenticeship Training, Federal
Committee on -
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1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes statistics on Black unemployment and students in secondary schools of ten
states receiving grand-in-aid including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts,
Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming.
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Box 11 | Folder 2 |
Labor Department - Fitzgerald, Henry J. -
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1934-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Routine internal administrative correspondence
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Box 11 | Folder 3 |
Labor Department - Gompers S.J. -
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1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Includes statistics on salaries and staffing of Blacks in the Labor Department, United
States Employment Service and the National Reemployment Service. Data from the Washington,
DC Employment Service on job applicants and employee placements divided by race.
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Box 11 | Folder 4 |
Labor Department - Hinrichs, A.F. -
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1930-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the Labor Department's public policy concerning state conferences
on Black employment problems; Memorandum to Lawrence A. Oxley, April 15, 1935, requesting
a study of the decline in Black labor union membership during the depression. Author
suggests the reason involves unemployment; Memorandum to A.F. Hinrichs, March 4, 1935,
re National and International labor unions in the Construction Industry, affiliated
and unaffiliated with the AFL in which discrimination against Blacks is traditional
or provided for in the union constitution; Memorandum to A.F. Hinrichs, January 30,
1935, noting theories on depressed wages in the south for both Black and white employees,
including bibliography; Conference notes re detailed position description of Lawrence
Oxley's position of Chief, Division of Black Labor in the Labor Department; Memorandum
to A.F. Hinrichs, October 3, 1934 listing Black government officials and national
organizations concerned with educational, economic, professional, political and general
advancement of Blacks. Suggested bibliography on the Black in industry; Memorandum
to A.F. Hinrichs re statistics on the distribution of Black miners by counties in
West Virginia, in 1930
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Box 11 | Folder 5 |
Labor Department - Immigration Service -
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1932-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and petitions from Blacks alleging racial discrimination and requesting
to be sent to Africa
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Box 11 | Folder 6 |
Labor Department - Lubin, Isador -
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1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re procedure on arranging state conferences concerning Black employment
problems. Requests for travel authorization to conferences concerning Blacks where
the Labor Department's presence might have positive political influence for the Franklin
D. Roosevelt administration.
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Box 11 | Folder 7 |
Labor Department - Lubin, Isador - Weekly Progress Reports -
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1935-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Detailed accounts of Lawrence Oxley's action as Chief, Division of Black Labor.
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Box 11 | Folder 8 |
Labor Department - Perkins, Frances M. -
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1934-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and pamphlets, including general facilitative office correspondence
to Perkins, Oxley, and other officials in the Labor Department. Contains routine solicitation
for information on Black employment and general information on Secretary of Labor
and the Labor Department.
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Box 11 | Folder 9 |
Labor Department - Perkins, Frances M. -
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1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports and pamphlets. Includes correspondence to Perkins and Oxley
on discrimination against Blacks in employment. Statistics on Black workers and Black
education. Reports to Perkins on the Division of Black Labor and speeches. Exchange
on alleged discrimination against Blacks in Labor Department. Includes hostile correspondence
from Black person relating to Black federal employees; Letter from General Counsel
of International Association of Railroad Employees on discrimination against Blacks
in the railroad industry and problems with railroad craft unions and their exclusive
jurisdiction under the Railway Labor Act, August 1, 1936; Memorandum containing rationale
for maintenance of staff o the Division of Black Labor rather than a reduction in
force of the office, noting that an active Division may have political influence in
the voting patterns of the south, June 1, 1936; Memorandum recommending that the Democratic
National Committee be assigned the task of compiling information about the New Deal
Administration and its impact on Black employment and emergency relief. Goal is to
produce a publication with information favorable to Blacks to influence the voting
pattern of the south, March 23, 1936; Memorandum-report concerning the first meeting
of the National Negro Congress, February 14, 1936 in Chicago. Notes John P. Davis
as founder of the organization. Describes organization's leaders as communists, March
5 1936; Memorandum-progress report on Blacks and the New Deal. Discusses problems
on barriers to entry in employment, job searching, and employment opportunities. Provides
an economic analysis of the Black population. Discusses discrimination against Blacks
in emergency relief programs by the NRA, the Public Works Administration, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and related trade unions. Lists
achievements of the Division of Black unions. Lists achievements of the Division of
Black Labor, November 9, 1935; Letter describing activities of Georgia Teachers and
Educational Association, a Black teachers' association. Includes a recommendation
to hire a Black supervisor to the Georgia Relief Emergency Administration. Statistics
from 1933-34 on the number of schools, comparative analysis on Black and white teachers
and Black and white school enrollment. Goals for improving elementary and secondary
education for Blacks in Georgia, July 19, 1935; Memorandum giving opinion on Title
VII of proposed Economic Security Act. Discusses grant in aid for vocational education.
Proposal of statement to be included in the Economic Security Act providing equal
opportunity of appropriations for grant in aid to Black and white schools. Reviews
the Second Morrill Act and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. Statistical table on discrimination,
January 23, 1935; Memorandum discussing circulating rumors that Labor Department will
dismiss Black blue collar workers in favor of whites. Calls for continued employment,
the creation of additional employment opportunities and the end of discrimination
for Blacks, December 14, 1934; Memorandum from Lawrence Oxley quoting the 1934 American
Federation of Labor (AFL) resolution against discrimination of Blacks, October 22,
1934; Memorandum discusses the staffing of Black blue collar workers in the Labor
Department. Insofar as possible, discrimination against Blacks will be avoided, January
2, 1934; "The Division of Negro Labor, Department of Labor," describes activities
of the Division of Black Labor.
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Labor Department - Phillips, Karl F.
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1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine internal administrative correspondence
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Box 12 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
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Box 12 | Folder 1 |
Labor Department - U.S. Employment Service - Black White-Collar Employment Survey
-
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1935 |
Scope and Contents
Documents soliciting various state employment services for eligible Black job applicants
to work on a Works Progress Administration project. Surveying Black white-collar employees.
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Box 12 | Folder 2 |
Labor Department - U.S. Employment Service - Special Reports - Arthur, George R. -
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1933-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Reports on the relationship between the state employment services and Black job applicants
in Dallas, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama; Los Angeles
and San Francisco, California; Kansas City, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. Alleged
discrimination against Blacks in these areas. Analysis of occupation and characteristics
of emergency relief recipients for Chicago, Illinois.
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Box 12 | Folder 3 |
Labor Department -Wage and Hour Division -
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1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Documents re Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment at the Wage
and Hour Division of the Labor Department.
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Box 12 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous Complaints
|
1928-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Letters from Blacks complaining of discrimination in staffing and employment from
various parts of the country.
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Box 12 | Folder 5 |
National Archives -
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1934-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re Lawrence Oxley's attempts at ensuring employment Black job applicants
in the newly created National Archives
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Box 12 | Folder 6 |
National Recovery Administration
|
1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Reports and correspondence concerning NRA fair competition industry codes and Lawrence
Oxley's participation on the Labor Advisory Board ensuring against racial discrimination;
"A Wage Differential Based on Race," re discrimination against Blacks in wages and
NRA fair competition industry codes; "Report on Effect of NRA Codes on Blacks, March
21, 1934," re alleged discrimination against Black workers. Describes the application
of NRA fair competition codes to southern industries and the resulting effects on
Blacks; "The Black and Wage Differentials Under the Codes," describes regional and
population wage differentials under the NRA codes with respect to Blacks.
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Box 12 | Folder 7 |
National Recovery Administration - Fair Competition Industry Codes - Central Weaving
and Spinning Company -
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Appeal for exemption from the NRA Act fair competition industry codes for the textile
industry by the Central Weaving and Spinning Company of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Discrimination is apparent as the company contends, Blacks are inferior employees.
Includes newspaper articles, statistics on Black births and deaths from 1933-1936
in the United States.
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Box 12 | Folder 8 |
National Recovery Administration - Fair Competition Industry Codes - Mente and Company
-
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1933-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Appeal for exemption from the NRA Act fair competition industry code for the textile
industry by the Mente Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and the Selma Manufacturing
Company of Selma, Alabama. Discrimination is apparent as the companies contend that
Blacks are inferior employees and have a low productivity rate. Statistics on Black
property ownership, economic, educational and religious progress in North Carolina,
Virginia, and Georgia.
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Box 12 | Folder 9 |
National Recovery Administration - Fair Competition Industry Codes - Nachman, D. and
Company -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Appeal for exemption from the NRA fair competition industry code for the textile industry
by the D. Nachman and Company of Augusta, Georgia. Racial discrimination is apparent
as the company contends Black women are inferior employees and have a low productivity
rate.
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Box 13 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
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Box 13 | Folder 1 |
National Recovery Administration - Fair Competition Industry Codes - Southland Manufacturing
Company
|
1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Appeal for exemption from the NRA Fair Competition Code for the clothing industry
by the Southland Manufacturing Company of Montgomery, Alabama. Discrimination against
Blacks is alleged. The company contends Blacks are inferior employees and have a low
productivity rate.
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Box 13 | Folder 2 |
National Recovery, Joint Committee on -
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
"Two Years with the Joint Committee on National Recovery, 1933-35." A publicity pamphlet
which states goals and accomplishments of the Committee and includes their progress
on behalf of Blacks in the New Deal. Information on Black industrial workers, farm
hands and farmers, dayworkers, emergency relief recipients and the Tennessee Valley
Authority. States relationship between the federal government and the Committee; correspondence,
memorandums, meeting minutes concerning the progress of Blacks under the New Deal
including the National Youth Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Project
Administration, Public Works Administration and Resettlement Administration. Protest
against discrimination against Blacks within these administrations and in the AFL
trade unions. Discussion of the fair competition industry codes of the NRA, specifically
including the cotton, laundry, tobacco and mining industries. Information and statistics
on the conditions Black day workers encounter; Memorandum to all member organizations
of the Joint Committee February 23, 1935 discusses the discriminatory effects against
Blacks by the implementation of the Farm Tenant Homes Act of 1935. Provisions render
discrimination against Black tenant farmers, sharecroppers and marginal land owners;
Memorandum to Isador Lubin, October 24, 1934, re observations of an annual dinner
for the Joint Committee. Presents administrative viewpoints on how Black unemployment
problems are viewed and solved.
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Box 13 | Folder 3 |
National Recovery, Joint Committee on -
|
1934 |
Scope and Contents
"Occupational Status of the Blacks in the Iron and Steel Industry: Pittsburgh and
Environs, May 23, 1934," by Wilson F. Alden, Pittsburgh Urban League. History and
current information including alleged discrimination against Blacks in the Iron and
Steel Industry from Alleghany County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Statistics on Black
employees and their occupations; "An Analysis of the Occupational Opportunities for
Blacks in Allegheny County," by Howard D. Gould. Report on the problems of Black employment
and resulting job opportunities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Statistics on population
(1910-1930), migration, employment, occupations, industries employing Blacks and wages.
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Box 13 | Folder 4 |
Publications -
|
1933-1941 |
Scope and Contents
Published reports on racial employment trends in national defense, black employment
opportunities in Kentucky, employment security and the Blacks, Black youth, placement
of Black workers by the United States Employment Service, earnings and hours of Black
workers in independent tobacco industry, memorandums and executive orders from President
Roosevelt condemning discrimination in defense industries. Report on the situation
of Black women workers.
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Box 13 | Folder 5 |
Public Works Administration - Agreements -
|
1935-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Agreements between Public Works Administration and the Labor Department which guaranteed
employment to Blacks on a percentage basis for individual PWA projects. Projects are
located in New Jersey, New York, Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky and
Indiana.
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Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Public Works Administration - Contracts - Isador Lubin -
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks on PWA projects in New York City, Kansas City,
Saint Louis, Los Angeles, Fort Wayne, Georgetown, Greensville, Point Pleasant, Mantina,
and Florida. Suggested clauses to be inserted in project agreements to safeguard Blacks
against discrimination.
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Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Public Works Administration - Housing Contracts -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Suggested clauses to be inserted into PWA contracts. Chicago, Cleveland, housing project
agreements to prevent discrimination against Black workers. Alleged discrimination
against Blacks on these projects in Chicago. List of building and construction trade
labor unions barring Black membership. Racial statistics on emergency relief recipient
and population in the United States and occupations in the building and construction
trade held by Blacks in Chicago.
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Box 13 | Folder 8 |
Resettlement Administration
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
RE alleged discrimination against Blacks in employment on a project in North Carolina.
Information on the number and occupations of Black employees in the Resettlement Administration.
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Box 13 | Folder 9 |
Tennessee Valley Authority -
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on wages paid to Black workers with the TVA. Request of Lawrence Oxley
to visit the work sites to prevent discrimination against Blacks in staffing.
|
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Box 14 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. Subject Files.
|
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Box 14 | Folder 1 |
Tennessee Valley Authority - Discrimination
|
1935-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
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Box 14 | Folder 2 |
Tobacco -
|
1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at a tobacco plant in Ohio; "The
Tobacco Industry in North Carolina," report on the tobacco industry with statistics
for major companies on profits, production, employees, wages, hours. Discrimination
against Blacks is charged because of the low wage rates prescribed by the NRA in the
fair competition industry code.
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Box 14 | Folder 3 |
Tobacco Study -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Bibliography on the tobacco industry. Questionnaire schedule used for Black and white
employees of the tobacco industry.
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Box 14 | Folder 4 |
Transportation, Federal Coordinator of -
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Black railroad workers by American Federation of Labor
railroad unions, resulting in unemployment.
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Box 14 | Folder 5 |
Unemployment Census -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on unemployment divided by race for Arizona, Delaware, and New Hampshire
|
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Box 14 | Folder 6 |
Works Progress Administration - Available Housing for Research Project -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Requests for office space from Black contacts for a WPA study concerning Black white-collar
employees.
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Box 14 | Folder 7 |
Works Progress Administration - Miscellaneous Correspondence -
|
1935-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the WPA in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Los Angeles, California, and Texas. Job applicants requesting aid in securing
employment in the WPA.
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Box 14 | Folder 8 |
Works Progress Administration - Black Press Digest -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Weekly report on the articles found in Black newspapers concerning the Works Progress
Administration.
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Box 14 | Folder 9 |
Works Progress Administration - Savannah, Georgia -
|
1934-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Works Progress
Administration projects at Savannah, Georgia.
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Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Works Progress Administration - Alfred E. Smith -
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the WPA in Alabama,
Ohio, South Carolina, Nebraska, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, and Florida.
Job applicants request aid in securing employment with this administration.
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Box 14 | Folder 11 |
Works Progress Administration - Workers' Education -
|
1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Bulletins from the Workers' Education Training Center, Livingstone College, Salisbury,
North Carolina funded by the WPA. Bulletin on workers' education from the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration.
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Box 15 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. State Employment Service State Files.
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Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Alabama - Complaints -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Letters alleging discriminations against Blacks by Birmingham, Alabama, State Employment
Service Office. Complaint that the office is disregarding the civil service eligible
lists for Black job applicants.
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Box 15 | Folder 2 |
Alabama - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Concerning a conference to be held with the Alabama State Employment Service on the
problems of Black employment and racial discrimination.
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Box 15 | Folder 3 |
Alabama - Survey
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Alabama State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients,
occupations, local industry, and data on job applicants and employee placement divided
by race in Birmingham and Alabama. Report of conference held with service concerning
Black employment and racial discrimination. Proposal for urban renewal in Birmingham.
1934,1938.
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Box 15 | Folder 4 |
Arizona - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Newspaper article and correspondence re the opening of a Black employment service.
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arizona State Employment Service.
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Box 15 | Folder 5 |
Arkansas - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arkansas State Employment Service concerning
civil service merit examinations and eligible lists in Little Rock.
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Box 15 | Folder 6 |
Arkansas - Survey
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Arkansas State Employment Service and Black
job applicants, Statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients,
occupations, local industry and data on job applicants and employee placements divided
by race for Little Rock and Arkansas. Examines cotton industry, tenant farming, housing
and slave labor in Arkansas.
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Box 15 | Folder 7 |
California - Complaints -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discriminations against Blacks in staffing by the Civilian Conservation Corps,
Shasta Dam Project, Shasta County, Tulare California.
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Box 15 | Folder 8 |
California - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re WPA funding for study of Black unemployment in California. Alleged
discrimination against Blacks by the California State Employment Service.
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Box 15 | Folder 9 |
California - Survey -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Report of 1935 study on white collar and skilled and professional Blacks in Los Angeles,
County, California funded by the WPA. Includes racial statistics on population, educational
level, extent of training and the extent to which the training affected their socio-economic
status. Also report including racial statistics on population (1910-1935), emergency
relief recipients, occupations, local industry and California State Employment Service
data divided by race in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, California.
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Box 15 | Folder 10 |
Colorado - Complaints -
|
1934 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Colorado State Employment Service in
civil service merit examinations and staffing.
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Box 15 | Folder 11 |
Colorado - Survey -
|
1933 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients and unemployment in Colorado
and Denver.
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Box 15 | Folder 12 |
Connecticut - General Correspondence -
|
1939 |
Scope and Contents
List of members and conference report of the State Advisory Council of the Connecticut
State Employment Service.
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Box 15 | Folder 13 |
Connecticut - Survey -
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients and occupations of
Blacks in Hartford, New Haven and Connecticut.
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Box 15 | Folder 14 |
Delaware - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Delaware State Employment
Service
|
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Box 15 | Folder 15 |
Delaware - Survey -
|
1933 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, 1910-1935, emergency relief recipients, unemployment and
occupations divided by race in Wilmington and Delaware.
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Box 15 | Folder 16 |
Florida - Complaints -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in civil service competitive examinations and
employee placement opportunities by the Florida State Employment Service. Correspondence
alleging discrimination by unions and employers against Black mechanic, farm hand,
and shipping industry employees.
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Box 15 | Folder 17 |
Florida - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment with the Florida State
Employment Service. Discrimination against Blacks at the service, where racial segregation
exists. Reports on the improvement of treatment of Blacks in civil service merit examinations
and employee placements.
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Box 15 | Folder 18 |
Florida - Survey
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on occupational groups of job applicants to Florida State Employment Service,
divided by race.
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Box 15 | Folder 19 |
Georgia - Complaints -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Atlanta, Georgia State Employment Service
in civil service merit examinations. Alleged discrimination against Blacks in Georgia
resulting in unemployment and poverty.
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Box 15 | Folder 20 |
Georgia - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination regarding the dismissal of Black employees from the Atlanta,
Georgia State Employment Service. Black job applicants request aid in securing employment
with the United States Employment Service.
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Box 15 | Folder 21 |
Georgia - Survey -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Georgia State Employment service and Black
job applicants. Racial statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients,
occupations and local industry in Atlanta and Georgia. Correspondence arranging conferences
on Black labor in Georgia.
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Box 16 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. State Employment Service State Files.
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Box 16 | Folder 1 |
Illinois - Metropolitan Chicago Conference on Employment Problems of the Negro - 1940
|
1940 |
Scope and Contents
Speeches to the Conference concerning Black employment in white collar, professional,
utilities and government sectors; the place of Blacks in the Social Security Program;
Industrial aspect and economic aspect; the Chicago Black occupational picture; Black
Labor Symposium includes discussion of training needs and employment opportunities
in meat packing, iron and steel, manufacturing, hotel and restaurant and construction
industries. Training and opportunities sought for day workers and personal and custodial
service. Black youth in the employment picture and the Black woman workers are subjects
of discussion.
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Box 16 | Folder 2 |
Illinois - Chicago Conference on Occupational Status and Employment Opportunities
for Black Workers - 1934 -
|
1934-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference on occupational status and to ensure employment
opportunities for Black workers in Chicago; WPA projects correspondence with Howard
D. Gould of the Chicago Urban League relating to a specific project - the Black Occupational
Survey.
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Box 16 | Folder 3 |
Illinois - Complaints -
|
1934-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the WPA
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Box 16 | Folder 4 |
Illinois - General Correspondence -
|
1939 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants request aid in securing employment with the Illinois State Employment
Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the service.
|
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Box 16 | Folder 5 |
Illinois - Proposed WPA Studies -
|
1939 |
Scope and Contents
Proposals for three WPA studies in Cook County, Illinois, re Black employment, occupations
and population dynamics. Projects to be sponsored by the Illinois State Employment
Service and conducted at the University of Chicago.
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Box 16 | Folder 6 |
Illinois - Chicago - South Parkway Employment Office -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants request aid in securing employment at the Illinois State Employment
Service. Complaints from the service on a labor shortage of staff and racial segregation
of offices.
|
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Box 16 | Folder 7 |
Illinois - Chicago - West Wacker Drive Office -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Conference re Black employment. Report on meeting with the Chicago Urban League concerning
the progress of Black employment in the WPA which resulted in the proposal to lobby
government officials to demand the inclusion of Black employees on projects. Advertising
for the re-election of Black Congressman Arthur Mitchell of Chicago.
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Box 16 | Folder 8 |
Illinois - Survey -
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Illinois State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients occupations,
local industry, job applicants and employee placements in Chicago, Cook County, and
Illinois. Questionnaire concerning employment opportunities in retail trade for Blacks.
Report on progress of Black employment in East Saint Louis, Chicago. Complaint from
South Parkway office concerning racial segregation.
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Box 16 | Folder 9 |
Indiana - Complaints -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the Indiana State Employment Service in the
service's staffing. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in under unemployment
and unemployment.
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Box 16 | Folder 10 |
Indiana - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicant requests aid in securing a position with the Indiana State Employment
Service.
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Box 16 | Folder 11 |
Indiana - Survey -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Indiana State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations
and job applicants and employee placements from the service for Indianapolis and Indiana.
Reports and statistics on the employment of Blacks in various Indiana Federal Emergency
Relief Administration Housing projects. List of Black officials in the National Youth
Administration.
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Box 16 | Folder 12 |
Kansas - Complaints -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Excerpts from a PWA Inspection Report alleging discriminations against Blacks by government
officials and labor unions.
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Box 16 | Folder 13 |
Kansas- Survey -
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Racial Statistics on the occupational groups of job applicants and employee placements
from the Kansas State Employment Service.
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Box 16 | Folder 14 |
Kentucky - Complaints -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
alleged discrimination against Blacks. Report of wage differentials for Black and
white employees of the Kentucky State Employment Service. Complaints by Blacks concerning
living conditions, unemployment and poverty.
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Box 16 | Folder 15 |
Kentucky - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with the Kentucky State Employment Service. Black
job applicants request aid in securing employment. Alleged dismissal of Black employee
in the service because of local political affiliation.
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Box 16 | Folder 16 |
Kentucky - Survey -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Racial statistics on population (1910-1933), emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry, and job applicants and employee placements from the Kentucky State
employment Service for Louisville and Kentucky. Correspondence arranging conferences
with the service concerning Black employment. Reports of field trips to Louisville,
Kentucky.
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Box 16 | Folder 17 |
Louisiana - Complaints -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the Louisiana State Employment Service. Alleged
discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.
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Box 16 | Folder 18 |
Louisiana - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with the Louisiana State Employment Service concerning
Black employment. Discrimination against a potential Black employee of the Service.
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Box 16 | Folder 19 |
Louisiana - Survey -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Louisiana State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Racial statistics on population (1910-33) emergency relief recipients,
occupation, local industry and job applicants and employee placements from the Service,
for New Orleans and Louisiana. Report on a field trip to Louisiana.
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Box 16 | Folder 20 |
Maryland - Complaints -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
alleged discrimination against Blacks in private sector industry and emergency relief
projects in Maryland.
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Box 16 | Folder 21 |
Maryland - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with Maryland State Employment Service concerning
Black employment, Black job applicants request aid in securing a position with the
Division of Negro Labor.
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Box 16 | Folder 22 |
Maryland - Survey -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Maryland State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics on population, occupations, wages, unemployment, and job
applicants and employee placement from the service, divided by race. Report from the
service on Black employment.
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Box 16 | Folder 23 |
Massachusetts - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Petition from National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that public
service corporations be prohibited from discrimination in employment on account of
race. Report on conference with Massachusetts State Employment Service about Black
employment.
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Box 16 | Folder 24 |
Massachusetts - Survey -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Racial statistics on population, occupations, unemployment and job applicants and
employee placements from the Massachusetts State Employment Service. Meeting minutes
from the service on Black employment.
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Box 17 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. State Employment Service State Files.
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Box 17 | Folder 1 |
Michigan - Complaints -
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Michigan State Employment Service. Complaints
of unemployment and poverty.
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Box 17 | Folder 2 |
Michigan - Conference on Employment Problems of the Blacks - Detroit, 1940 -
|
1940 |
Scope and Contents
Papers include statistics on Black population, occupations, unemployment, vocational
education, public welfare, WPA employees. Papers report on intellectual competence,
family relationships, crime and delinquency, health and housing.
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Box 17 | Folder 3 |
Michigan - Detroit -
|
1937-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Text from radio program about employment of Blacks by Michigan State Employment Service.
Report on conference with service relating to Black employment.
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Box 17 | Folder 4 |
Michigan - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with Michigan State Employment Service. Blacks
request information and aid in securing employment. Statistics on population divided
by race for Flint, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Michigan. Report on Black staffing problem.
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Box 17 | Folder 5 |
Michigan - Survey -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Facts regarding PWA housing projects in Detroit. Report on the relationship between
the Michigan State Employment Service and Black job applicants. Racial statistics
on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, local industry, unemployment
and job applicants and employee placements for Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Grand Rapids,
and Michigan. Conference report concerning Black employment.
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Box 17 | Folder 6 |
Mississippi - General correspondence -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with Mississippi State
Employment Service. Racial statistics on emergency relief recipients, occupations
and job applicants, and employee placements from the service, in Meridan, Jackson,
and Mississippi.
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Box 17 | Folder 7 |
Mississippi - Survey -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients and job applicants and
employee placements from the Mississippi State Employment Service divided by race
in Jackson, Meridan, and Mississippi.
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Box 17 | Folder 8 |
Missouri - Complaints -
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Missouri State Employment
Service.
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Box 17 | Folder 9 |
Missouri - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning alleged discrimination against Blacks by the Missouri State
Employment Service. Letters from Missouri Congressman, John J. Cochran, expressing
dissatisfaction in Lawrence Oxley's speeches which contend that discrimination exists
in many facets of the Federal government. Statistics on job applicants and employee
placements, divided by race, from the service.
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Box 17 | Folder 10 |
Missouri - Survey -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Missouri State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics include population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry, job applicants and employee placements from the service divided by
race for Saint Louis, Kansas City, and Missouri. Conference report concerning the
service and Black employment.
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Box 17 | Folder 11 |
Nebraska - Survey -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, and occupations divided
by race in Omaha and Nebraska.
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Box 17 | Folder 12 |
New Jersey - Complaints -
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants request aid in securing employment. Charges that Black migrants
are depressing the farmhand wages and of alleged discrimination against Blacks in
the shipbuilding industry in New Jersey.
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Box 17 | Folder 13 |
New Jersey - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conferences with New Jersey State Employment Service concerning
Black employment. Letters from Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
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Box 17 | Folder 14 |
New Jersey - Survey -
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations and unemployment
divided by race in Jersey City, Newark, Camden, and New Jersey.
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Box 17 | Folder 15 |
New York - Complaints -
|
1934-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks including barriers to entry into PWA employment
where a closed shop agreement existed and labor unions bar Blacks from membership.
Political cartoons and comments depicting discrimination against Blacks. Black job
applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
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Box 17 | Folder 16 |
New York City - Housing Authority - Harlem Family Income Survey -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Survey containing statistics on sources of income, percentage of income for rent,
population density, composition of the family by race.
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Box 17 | Folder 17 |
New York State - Commercial and Professional Division - Josephine P. Holmes -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with the New York State Employment Service concerning
Black employees.
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Box 17 | Folder 18 |
New York State - Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance - Fritz Kaufman
-
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Proposal for study of the relationship of the New York State Employment Service with
Blacks.
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Box 17 | Folder 19 |
New York State - Harlem -
|
1934-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Annual reports from the Men's Industrial Service, Youth Statistics Divisions of the
New York State Employment Service office in Harlem. Includes statistics on job applicants
and placements.
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Box 17 | Folder 20 |
New York State -New York World's Fair -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
United States Employment Service endeavors to secure employment for Blacks on the
New York World's Fair projects. Requests by Black job applicants for aid in securing
employment at the fair. Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the fair.
Leaflet on the condition of the urban Black population.
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Box 17 | Folder 21 |
New York State - William H. Lange -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Routine correspondence
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Box 17 | Folder 22 |
New York State - William H. Wilkinson -
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics concerning job applicants and employee placements of the New York State
Employment Service and the National Re-Employment Service.
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Box 17 | Folder 23 |
New York State - Survey -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the New York State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry, and job applicants and employee placements from the service, divided
by race for New York City, Buffalo, and New York.
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Box 18 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. State Employment Service State Files.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 1 |
North Carolina - Complaints -
|
1935-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by North Carolina State Employment Service and
private sector employers.
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Box 18 | Folder 2 |
North Carolina - Examination information -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Routine correspondence.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 3 |
North Carolina - General Correspondence -
|
1934-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Pamphlet on North Carolina
Committee on Black Affairs and a conference program for Black social workers.
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Box 18 | Folder 4 |
North Carolina - Joseph R. Watts -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Black employee in the North Carolina State Employment
Services.
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Box 18 | Folder 5 |
North Carolina - Survey -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the North Carolina State Employment Service and
Black job applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry, WPA staffing and job applicants, and employee placements of the service
divided by race in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem Durham, Raleigh
and North Carolina. Report on field trip to the service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 6 |
Ohio - Complaints -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Ohio State Employment Service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Ohio - The Population of Hamilton County -
|
1935 |
Scope and Contents
Detailed report and statistics on population, race, characteristics, age, sex, employment,
unemployment, marital status, religious affiliation, births, and deaths in Hamilton
County.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 8 |
Ohio - Columbus -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Ohio State Employment
Service, Columbus, office. Report on conference.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 9 |
Ohio - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment, with the Ohio State
Employment Service. Letters from Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
Newspaper article alleging discrimination against Blacks.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 10 |
Ohio - Special Reports -
|
1939-1940 |
Scope and Contents
Procedures for referring Black job applicants. Report on Black employment from the
Ohio State Employment Service and the Columbus Urban League. Survey of Black employee
placement activities. Statistics on population, divided by race in Akron, Canton,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Youngstown, and Ohio.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 11 |
Ohio - Survey -
|
1935-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics divided by race, on population, emergency relief recipients, and job applicants
and employee placement from the Ohio State Employment Service and the National Re-employment
Service for Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Akron, Youngstown, and Ohio.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 12 |
Ohio - Cincinnati - Survey -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Report on conference concerning Black job applicants and employee placements with
the Ohio State Employment Service, Cincinnati Office.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 13 |
Ohio - Cleveland Survey -
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Ohio State Employment Service and Black job
applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, local
industry, and data on job applicants and employee placements from the service divided
by race for Cleveland. Report concerning conference on Black employment with the service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 14 |
Oklahoma - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference with Oklahoma State Employment Service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 15 |
Oklahoma - Survey -
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, local industry
and on job applicants and employee placements from the Oklahoma State Employment Service
divided by race for Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Oklahoma. Report on field trip to the
service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 16 |
Pennsylvania - Complaints -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Pennsylvania State Employment
Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 17 |
Pennsylvania - General Correspondence -
|
1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania
State Employment Service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 18 |
Pennsylvania - Harrisburg - Tensard DeWolf -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Routine correspondence.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 19 |
Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - George W. Dorsey -
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania
State Employment Service. Radio broadcast concerning Black employment by the service.
|
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Box 18 | Folder 20 |
Pennsylvania - Survey -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Conference report of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service concerning Black employment.
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, and unemployment.
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations and unemployment.
|
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Box 19 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley. State Employment Service State Files.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 1 |
Rhode Island -
|
1939 |
Scope and Contents
Fourth Annual Report of the Rhode Island Unemployment Compensation Board to the Governor
for transmission to the General Assembly.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 2 |
South Carolina - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the south Carolina
State Employment Service.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 3 |
South Carolina - Survey -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, job applicants,
and employee placements divided by race in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg,
and South Carolina.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 4 |
Tennessee - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Alleged discrimination against Black person complaining of violence, unemployment,
and poverty.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 5 |
Tennessee - Survey -
|
1936-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Tennessee State Employment Service and Black
job applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry and job applicants and employee placements from the Service, divided
by race for Nashville and Tennessee.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 6 |
Texas - Centennial -
|
1936 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning an exhibit by the Labor Department which portrays American
workers including Blacks at the Texas Centennial.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 7 |
Texas - Complaints -
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
Answer to a complaint of discrimination against Blacks.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 8 |
Texas - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Texas State Employment
Service. Alleged racial discrimination in staffing by the Service.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 9 |
Texas - Survey -
|
1936-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the Texas State Employment Service and Black job
applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, local
industry, and job applicants and employee placements from the Service divided by race
for Texas. Report on field trip to the Service.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 10 |
Virginia - Complaints -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence alleging discrimination against Blacks by the Virginia State Employment
Service in civil service competitive examinations. Black job applicants requesting
aid in securing employment.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 11 |
Virginia - General Correspondence -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Virginia State Employment
Service. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 12 |
Virginia - Survey -
|
1937-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations and job applicants
and employee placements from the Virginia State Employment Service divided by race
for Richmond and Virginia. Editorial describing discrimination against Blacks under
the New Deal.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 13 |
Washington, DC - Complaints -
|
1935-1937 |
Scope and Contents
Letters protesting replacement of incompetent B lack worker with unsympathetic white
worker at the Washington, DC Employment Service.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 14 |
Washington, DC - General Correspondence -
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Conference on the problems of vocational and secondary schools.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 15 |
Washington, DC - Board of Public Welfare -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence arranging meeting with the Board of Public Welfare to discuss Black
problems.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 16 |
Washington, DC - Survey -
|
1937-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
unemployment, job applicants and employee placements from the Washington, DC employment
service. Report on the relationship between the service and Black job applicants.
Discrimination against a Black employee at the Service is alleged.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 17 |
Virginia - Complaints -
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
Replies to letters alleging discrimination against Blacks.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 18 |
West Virginia - General Correspondence -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Discrimination against
Blacks in staffing at the West Virginia State Employment Service.
|
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Box 19 | Folder 19 |
West Virginia - Survey -
|
1936-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between the West Virginia State Employment Service and
Black job applicants. Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations,
local industry, unemployment, and on job applicants and employee placements from the
service divided by race for Charlestown and West Virginia. Paper on Black families
concerning composition, children and employability.
|
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Box 20 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley Files. Employment Service, Information
and Job Applicants Files.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 1 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 2 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 3 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 4 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 5 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 6 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 7 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 8 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 9 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 10 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 11 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 12 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 13 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 14 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 15 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 16 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 17 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
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Box 20 | Folder 18 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 19 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 20 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 21 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 22 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 23 |
A-Y
|
1934-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department
bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|||
Box 21 |
U.S. Department of Labor. Lawrence A. Oxley Files. Employment Service, Information
and Job Applicants Files.
|
||
Box 21 | Folder 1 |
A-Y (Section II)
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes routine correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants.
Filed alphabetically by applicant.
|
|||
Box 21 | Folder 2 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
|
|||
Box 21 | Folder 3 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
|
|||
Box 21 | Folder 4 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
|
|||
Box 21 | Folder 5 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
|
|||
Box 21 | Folder 6 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 7 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 8 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 9 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 10 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 11 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 12 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 13 |
A-Y Section II
|
1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 14 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 15 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 16 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 17 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 18 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 21 | Folder 19 |
A-Y Section II
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1934-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically
by applicant.
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Box 22 |
Karl F. Phillips. Commissioner of Conciliation. Files.
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Box 22 | Folder 1 |
Andrews, R. McCants - Durham, NC attorney, invites Phillips to various functions.
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1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 2 |
Beckett, Bishop W.W. - Mississippi - Requests DOL aid for project
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1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 3 |
Beckwith, Frank R. - Indiana, Director of Negro Welfare, requests of Phillips for
job
|
1929-1932 |
Box 22 | Folder 4 |
Branch, Joel P. - Cleveland - Hand-written report on labor situation for Blacks.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 5 |
Bruce, Phillip A. - University of Virginia, send Phillips monograph on northward migration
of Blacks.
|
1924 |
Box 22 | Folder 6 |
Bruseaux, Sheridan A. - Chicago, Principal Keystone National Detective Agency, Incorporated,
requests information on employment situation for Blacks all over United States.
|
1925-1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 7 |
Burton, James D. - Georgia, Interstate Secretary for Alabama and Tennessee, Commission
on Interracial Cooperation, requesting information on miners wages.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 8 |
Campbell, Charles C. - Michigan, Lansing, Special Industrial Agent for DOL, requests
information farming, migration of Blacks.
|
1924-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 9 |
Chisum, Melvin J. - DC Field Secretary, National Negro Press Association, thanking
Phillips for getting friend a job.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 10 |
Clark, John L. - Pittsburgh, Printer, request Phillips aid to guard against discrimination
by International Typographical Union - Phillips suggests taking matter up with Charles
Howard, International President.
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 11 |
Cobb, Robert S. - Jefferson City, Missouri, Executive Secretary of Negro Industrial
Commission requests Phillips aid in finding job.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 12 |
Commerce Department - compilation of statistics on persons in jail by race.
|
1923 |
Box 22 | Folder 13 |
D.C. and New York - one female requests Phillips to get $15 due her for work as cook,
1 other requests help in clothing trades and general correspondence.
|
1927-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 14 |
Copeland, M.L. - Kentucky, routine.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 15 |
Cotton Picking Machine - Department of Labor, news release about new machine; requests
for information from many farmers.
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 16 |
Crabmeat Pickers - Maryland, pickers go on strike since their wages dropped from 35
cents to 25 cents.
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1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 17 |
Davidson, Lucy E. - DC, letter to Kerwin thanking him for recommending that she be
allowed to keep her job.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 18 |
DePriest, Honorable Oscar - D.C., Congressman, calls non-partisan conference on Blacks;
correspondence re Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen dispute.
|
1929-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 19 |
Dining Car Waiters - Lemus, Rienzi B., ask for same hours and benefits as other railroad
union members.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 20 |
Elks (Wilson) D.C., request Secretary Davis to send them U United States Health representative
as speaker.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 21 |
Employment - Howard University, bricklayers discriminated against in wages; United
States confidential reports on Black unemployment
|
1926- 1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 22 |
Employment Service Plan - Indiana, Phillips successful in helping employ Black man;
letter from another describing Black emancipation.
|
1931- 1932 |
Box 22 | Folder 23 |
Employment Service - Special - requests to Phillips for aid in finding jobs.
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 24 |
Ernst, Senator R.P. - Kentucky, routine.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 25 |
Fite, Hadley G. - Indiana, trying to keep Bureau for Blacks open.
|
1925-1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 26 |
Francis, Rothschild - Virgin Islands, Administrator seeks information from Phillips;
news article on prevailing wage.
|
1925-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 27 |
Froe, Arthur G. - D.C., recorder of deeds, requests Phillips for information to send
to friends re Blacks.
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 28 |
Furr, Arthur F. - D.C., requests Phillips to help him get a job.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 29 |
Goens, Walter W. - New York, requests Phillips aid in getting certified as a doctor
and finding employment.
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 30 |
Governorship - Pennsylvania, Phillips acts as Secretary Labor Davis' campaign manager
of Black vote.
|
1929-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 31 |
Harris, Professor Abram - Request for information on Black migration.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 32 |
Hale, W.J. Request for Georgia Douglas to speak at a conference in Tennessee.
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 33 |
Hall, Seabron F. - Detroit, letter of friendship and reply.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 34 |
Harris, George W. Request for job, report on Black labor statistics, Peoria, Illinois.
|
1925-1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 35 |
Haynes, George E. Executive Secretary of Interracial Conference asks Davis to participate
and routine.
|
1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 36 |
Henning, E.J., New York - requests aid in finding employment for a friend.
|
1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 37 |
Henry, Judge Edward - Answer from Phillips to request for Labor Department's aid with
conciliation.
|
1924 |
Box 22 | Folder 38 |
Hert, Alvin F. (Mrs.) Republican National Committee requests Phillips aid in finding
a job for wife of late Phil Brown.
|
1924 |
Box 22 | Folder 39 |
Hill, Honorable T. Edwards - West Virginia, Director of Negro Welfare and Statistics,
aids Phillips with reports, requests job with Phillips.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 40 |
Howard, Honorable Perry W. - Requests Phillips help in naturalizing immigrants.
|
1928-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 41 |
Howard Theatre Dispute - Dispute on Howard Theatre's musician dispute.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 42 |
Immigration - Princeton University, 82 page report on immigration from Latin America
and West Indies to America.
|
1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 43 |
Indiana - Cases - Dynes, Commissioner in Indiana, sends friends to Phillips for employment;
talks about political situation.
|
1930-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 44 |
Industrial Trends - Black migration, social adjustments, employment problems, attitudes.
|
1926-1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 45 |
Johnson, Charles S., Research Director for National Interracial Conference asks Phillips
for studies on Blacks to secure accurate picture of current Black living.
|
1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 46 |
Johnson, J.R. - Black from Texas requests Phillips aid in finding information on building
and loan associations.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 47 |
Johnson, Sol - Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 48 |
Jones, Eugene Kinckle - Executive Secretary of national Urban League, re favors and
recommendations.
|
1924-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 49 |
Jones, Francis I. - Director General, United States Employment Service, request for
information re employment.
|
1925-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 50 |
Jones, Scipio - Masonic Order, noted Black lawyer and judge asks Phillips help in
raising funds for needy youth and the elderly.
|
1925- 1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 51 |
Lewis, Morris - Chicago, Commissioner of Conciliation, routine correspondence
|
1924-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 52 |
Mailing List - routine
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 53 |
McCracken, Fred D. - personal friend of Phillips, requests aid in establishment of
job.
|
1925-1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 54 |
McDougald, G.E. (Mrs.) - Harlem Vocational Guidance Committee, joint report with DOL.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 55 |
Miller, Kelly - Howard University, "The Farm: The Negroes Best Chance," and requests
for information.
|
1925-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 56 |
Morrison, Julia - Request for information
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 57 |
Negro Colonization of Africa - correspondence.
|
1933 |
Box 22 | Folder 58 |
Negro Labor Congress - Militant news clippings
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 59 |
Nelms, H.G. - Alabama, Obscure union official, requesting information.
|
1929-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 60 |
Paxton, A.M. - Requests information on Black occupational survey.
|
1924-1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 61 |
Penny, Theodore R. - Pennsylvania, man with plan on home life. Phillips arranges interview
between him and Governor Pinchet of Pennsylvania.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 62 |
Pennsylvania Railroad - menu.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 63 |
Peters, Robert J. - Pennsylvania Director of Employment Bureau, Phillips requests
statistics from their office.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 64 |
Press Release - Race Pride versus Profit and Old Age Pension (Negro Labor News Service)
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 65 |
Prevailing Rate Legislation
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 66 |
Prevailing Rate Legislation - Virginia
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 67 |
Railway Workers - Indiana, reinstatement case of a woman who may have falsified age,
recommendation from Phillips to Secretary of Labor to make railroad crimes a federal
offense.
|
1932 |
Box 22 | Folder 68 |
Requests - for literature on Blacks
|
1927-1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 69 |
Robins, James J. - Letters of thanks to Phil Brown and Phillips for aid in finding
employment.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 70 |
Rosenthal, Aaron M. - "The Negro Problem"
|
1924-1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 71 |
Schields, R.G. - aid in securing appointment.
|
1925-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 72 |
Scott, Emmett J. - Secretary-Treasurer, Howard University, requests for jobs.
|
1926-1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 73 |
Scruggs, Baxter S. - Director, YMCA Detroit, requests Phillips to find job, then gets
job with YMCA and wants to coordinate efforts with DOL.
|
1924- 1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 74 |
Shepard, J.E. - President, North Carolina College for Negroes - re program for 3rd
Annual Fact Finding Conference.
|
1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 75 |
Sherard, Thomas W. - job applicant.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 76 |
Simpson, Gordon H. - mailing list request.
|
1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 77 |
Sledge, Wesley L. - Executive Secretary, Republican National Committee, Routine
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 78 |
Smallwood, William H. - job applicant.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 79 |
Smith, Olander J. - friend and job applicant.
|
1927-1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 80 |
Social Welfare - Phillips gets prison inmate job after his release.
|
1928-1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 81 |
Spurlock, Anna (Compensation) - re widow of deceased Carnegie Steel Company employee,
denied.
|
1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 82 |
Stokes, Harold Phelps - re report on Blacks on steam railway lines.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 83 |
Surveys - Report by Phillips distributed without permission of DOL; statistics on
Black workers from Ohio; report on fact finding committee; re Mexico restricts Blacks
from immigrating.
|
1924-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 84 |
Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company - spring festival for children in school.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 85 |
Thomas, James C. - re immigration questions.
|
1930-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 86 |
Thompson, A.B. - President, National Association of Railway Mechanics, re request
information on Railroad Mediation Board.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 87 |
Travel - routine travel authorizations.
|
1925-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 88 |
Trigg, J.M. Job applicant.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 89 |
Tuskegee - re summer lectures.
|
1929 |
Box 22 | Folder 90 |
Unemployment - Congress, article from "Congressional Record"
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 91 |
Urban League - re employment, Negroes; Boulder Dam employing Blacks; Survey of laundry
workers; reports on industry.
|
1924-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 92 |
Vann, Robert L. - Phillips thanks editor, Pittsburgh Courier, for favorable write-up
on Secretary Davis.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 93 |
Virgin Islands - report of Federal Commission to investigate industrial and economic
conditions in the Virgin Islands and routine correspondence.
|
1924-1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 94 |
Vocational Studies - New York - request for information on Black workers.
|
1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 95 |
Wages - Pullman Porters - news clippings re tips; petition from Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters and Pullman Company to ICC to prevent tipping.
|
1925-1933 |
Box 22 | Folder 96 |
Whitney, J.R.B. - job applicant.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 97 |
Warfield, William A. - reference for a steno-typist.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 98 |
Walrond, Eric D. re review of article on Virgin Islands; editorials from "Opportunity."
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 99 |
Ward, Colonel Joseph H. - Director of Virginia Hospital at Tuskegee Institute re assisting
a disabled vet from Indiana.
|
1927-1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 100 |
Washington, Forrester B. - Director, Atlanta School of Social Work re requests for
information, materials and favors.
|
1924-1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 101 |
Webb, C. Cornelius - Phillips congratulating Webb on appointment as special investigator
and mediator for Pullman Company.
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 102 |
Welfare Department - article, "The Need of the Nation."
|
1925 |
Box 22 | Folder 103 |
White House (Social) - re Blacks as guests at the White House; newspaper clippings.
|
1929-1930 |
Box 22 | Folder 104 |
Williams, Georgia - request for information.
|
1925-1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 105 |
Wilson, Robert E. Lee - re annual report of the Secretary of Labor.
|
1926 |
Box 22 | Folder 106 |
Woodson, George H. - re job applicant of position of Minister to the Republic of Liberia.
|
1926-1927 |
Box 22 | Folder 107 |
Women's Activities - Publication "Causes of Absence for Men and Women in Four Cotton
Mills;" National Association of Colored Women Conference re planning for program;
studies and activities of Black women in industry.
|
1929-1931 |
Box 22 | Folder 108 |
Wright, Eva A. - re instruction of colored women in voting, by Republican Women's
Club.
|
1924 |
Box 22 | Folder 109 |
Wright, R.R. - requests information on Black labor.
|
1928 |
Box 22 | Folder 110 |
Young, Adele - loss of money order
|
1929 |
Box 23 |
Division of Negro Economics. Files.
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Box 23 | Folder 1 |
Includes correspondence, memos and statements describing the function and creation
of the Division of Negro Economics; clippings and question and answer mimeo re the
Division and Negro industrial interests.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 23 | Folder 2 |
re staffing suggestions; appointments; re publication, "Negro-Migration, 1916-1917;"
meetings; plans; colored labor of the south; conditions of war workers; Negro Economics
in Ohio; and routine.
|
1918 |
Box 23 | Folder 3 |
re conferences; furlough of Forrester B. Washington to work for Division; staffing;
cooperation with United State Employment Service; question of discrimination within
the Department; minutes, 10/23/18; and routine.
|
1918 |
Box 23 | Folder 4 |
re Negro wage earners; staffing; resolutions' publishing a bulletin; meetings and
routine.
|
1919 |
Box 23 | Folder 5 |
re William Jennifer discharge due to lack of funds; transfer of Jennifer and Charles
Hall; Negroes in Industry; condition of colored situation in the south; and routine.
|
1919 |
Box 23 | Folder 6 |
re mortality among Negro children; Negro women workers; financial; meetings; "The
Racial Question," speech by Senator Selden P. Spencer (Missouri), 5/22/20; publication
of a department bulletin; comparison of incomes of Blacks and whites in similar indust
|
1920 |
Box 23 | Folder 7 |
re staffing; re publications of "The Negro at Work During the War and Reconstruction;"
questionnaire; Negro from colonies; adjustment of work of Charles Hall and William
Jennifer, Special Agents; and routine.
|
1920 |
Box 23 | Folder 8 |
re functions and work of Negro Economics Advisory Service; and routine.
|
1921 |
Box 23 | Folder 9 |
3 page mimeo entitled "Negro Economics in Florida," no date.
|
|
Box 23 | Folder 10 |
Financial papers, includes estimated budget for 1918-1919 and related documents.
|
1918-1919 |
Box 23 | Folder 11 |
"Matters of Record" - details functions and organization of the Division.
|
1918-1919 |
Box 23 | Folder 12 |
"Program of Work" and "Preliminary Programs" - outline of programs of conferences;
outline of work plans of the Division.
|
|
Box 23 | Folder 13 |
"Reports" - includes reports on various subjects; "Negro Migration Report;" interview
with Senator Fletcher of Florida; reports of weekly and monthly activities of the
Division; compulsory work law; reports on various localities; Negro Economics in Florid
|
1919-1920 |
Box 24 |
Division of Negro Economics. Files.
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Box 24 | Folder 1 |
A- with American Unity Labor Union re discrimination of Blacks in labor unions; with
G.W. Austin Vice-President Brotherhood of Shop Laborer's re organization of Blacks
in southern states; "The Armenia America Society," 2 page mimeo; letters recommending
v
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 2 |
B - Letters of recommendation from various sources for positions in the Division;
with T.W. Bickett, Governor of North Carolina; with Clara H. Blackman of St. Petersburg
Times.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 3 |
C - with Chicago League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes re cooperation with Mr.
Washington, Supervisor of Negro Economics in Illinois and the Chicago League; with
Cleveland Poll Survey Committee to W.B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor re southern railroad
wo
|
1918-1924 |
Box 24 | Folder 4 |
Carter, Jeanette, President of the Woman's Wage Earner's Association re letters of
recommendation for position with Department of Labor's Housing Bureau, her appointment
and later removal from the position.
|
1918 |
Box 24 | Folder 5 |
Council of National Defense - correspondence with Governor Clarkson, Division of the
Council re the formation of a Committee of Negroes under the Council; migration of
Negroes from south to the north.
|
1917-1918 |
Box 24 | Folder 6 |
D - re "Dillard Report" on Negro labor exodus from the southern states.
|
1918 |
Box 24 | Folder 7 |
E - with G.H. Edmunds, United Mine Workers offering his services as Negro Labor Advisor.
|
1918 |
Box 24 | Folder 8 |
F - with Governor of Florida, re discontinuance of the Bureau of Home Economics for
Negroes in his state; racial literature circulating in Florida; formation and plans
of Farm Service Division, United States Employment Service, to keep Negroes from leavin
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 9 |
G - letters of recommendation and routine.
|
1918 |
Box 24 | Folder 10 |
H - letters of recommendation and applications for positions; with Charles E. Hall,
Supervisor, Negro Economics, Ohio re housing facilities for Negroes, statistical work
on Negro wage-earners; literary with Frank Hallin, Editor of "Method;" with Mrs. Joh
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 11 |
Haynes, George E. - letters of recommendation and support, release announcing his
appointment, 7 page study and report by Haynes re model village in North Carolina
and routine.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 12 |
I - Inter-racial Council re immigration and routine.
|
1918-1925 |
Box 24 | Folder 13 |
J - with Mary E. Jackson, Secretary, Bureau of the Young Women's Christian Associations,
re colored women in industry; with Paul B. Johnson, Captain, Medical Corps re assisting
colored soldiers with finding employment after discharge and routine.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 14 |
Jackson, Giles B. - President, National Civic Improvement Association re conference
with Samuel Gompers, President, AFL, concerning plans for the mobilization of Negro
farm labor; ideas on the creation of a Bureau of Negro Labor; congested railroad situat
|
1917-1919 |
Box 24 | Folder 15 |
Jennifer, William - President, "The Detroit Compass," re literary (1920) and special
agent, United States Employment Service.
|
1919-1921 |
Box 24 | Folder 16 |
Jones, Eugene K. - Executive Secretary of National League on Urban Conditions Among
Negroes, and later National Urban League, 2 page statement re race riots in Washington
and Chicago distributed by National Urban League, and routine.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 25 |
Division of Negro Economics. Files.
|
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Box 25 | Folder 1 |
K - letters of recommendation from State of Kansas, Governor Arthur Capper and other
routine.
|
1918-1921 |
Box 25 | Folder 2 |
L - with Morris Lewis, Commissioner of Conciliation, Department, re unemployment for
Blacks in Chicago area; legislative bill and memo re creating Negro Industrial Commission
(1924) and routine.
|
1919-1928 |
Box 25 | Folder 3 |
Lynching Petition - petition with several signatures, appealing to William Baker,
Secretary of Labor, to stop allowing the lynching of Blacks.
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
March 5, 1918
|
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Box 25 | Folder 4 |
Land Settlement - correspondence with various realty companies re available farm lands
for Black settlements (including some advertising literature).
|
1920 |
Box 25 | Folder 5 |
M - routine.
|
1918-1926 |
Box 25 | Folder 6 |
Migration - re problems of Blacks migrating to the north and thereby depleting the
labor supply in the south and plans to try and control it.
|
1917- 1923 |
Scope and Contents
6a - Minneapolis Strike - 1917 - re Great Northern importing Negroes to replace white
labor.
|
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Box 25 | Folder 7 |
N - Correspondence with NAACP re colored representation on the Advisory Council; re
survey of colored workers in New York City; model constitution for local Negro Workers
Advisory Committee; Newport News, Virginia, re housing conditions and supply and dem
|
1918-1921 |
Box 25 | Folder 8 |
New Jersey - routine
|
1918 |
Box 25 | Folder 9 |
O-P - routine
|
1918 |
Box 25 | Folder 10 |
Q - routine
|
1918 |
Box 25 | Folder 11 |
R - Republican National Committee, Division of Colored Women re their recommendations
to the President for positions (for Blacks) in the federal government (1925); A. Phillip
Randolph re Pullman Company; National Urban League, Ira Reid re survey of numbe
|
1918-1933 |
Box 25 | Folder 12 |
S - routine.
|
1917-1932 |
Box 25 | Folder 13 |
T - letters of recommendation and routine.
|
1918-1919 |
Box 25 | Folder 14 |
U - United States Employment Service, "Clearance Bulletin" for week ending August
23, 1919 and routine.
|
1919-1928 |
Box 25 | Folder 15 |
V - routine
|
1918-1919 |
Box 25 | Folder 16 |
W - routine.
|
1918-1926 |
Box 25 | Folder 17 |
Miscellaneous memos, correspondence, etc.
|
1919-1925 |
Box 26 |
U.S. Housing Administration. Files.
|
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Box 26 | Folder 1 |
General File
|
1919 |
Scope and Contents
includes memos from Division of Negro Economics to Director of United States Bureau
of Housing and Transportation re housing conditions and Negro home registrations.
|
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Box 26 | Folder 2 |
Bixby, Charles R. -
|
1919 |
Scope and Contents
field agent for United States Homes Registration Committee, correspondence re setting
up colored registries in the Central West.
|
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Box 26 | Folder 3 |
Bull, A. H. and Company -
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence with United States Housing Corporation re application for construction
of housing for Negroes in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
|
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Box 26 | Folder 4 |
Commission on Living Conditions of War Workers -
|
1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, surveys and inter- office memos re the centralizing and coordinating
all public and private efforts for providing industrial workers in war industries
with proper living conditions and recreational opportunities.
|
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Box 26 | Folder 5 |
Edwards, Ray G. -
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
Field agent, includes daily report forms giving summary of day's work, persons and
places visited and correspondence arranging for separate reports for Negro and white
registries.
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Box 26 | Folder 6 |
Ford, James -
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
Manage, Homes Registration and Information Service, correspondence re organizing Negro
registries for various cities, bad housing conditions in Northern industrial centers.
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Box 26 | Folder 7 |
Hege, Edwin S. - Manager, Washington Homes Division, United States Housing Corporation
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence and report forms re types of housing accommodations available in various
areas; 13 page mimeo "Hearings before Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. A
Bill to Establish a Home or Homes for Aged and Infirm Colored People and Working Girls..
April 10, 1918," and miscellaneous.
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Box 26 | Folder 8 |
McCracken, Fred -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
Field agent, correspondence and daily reports re summary of day's work and persons
and places visited.
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Box 26 | Folder 9 |
Negro Registries -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence re the establishment of room registration offices for dealing with
colored people in cities; need for room registries for colored women.
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Box 26 | Folder 10 |
Parker, Carl R. -
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports re housing in Newport News - Briarfield,
Virginia; school needs in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Truxton, and Craddock,
Virginia.
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Box 26 | Folder 11 |
United States Department of Labor -
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1918-1922 |
Scope and Contents
file re Negro housing, Negro population and joint resolution for relief of citizens
of Truxton, Virginia re its housing corporation.
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Box 26 | Folder 12 |
Akron, Ohio -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
Field agent's detailed report re critical rooming and housing situation and problems
with getting recommendations approved.
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Box 26 | Folder 13 |
Alabama - Nitrate Plants and Towns -
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence re providing housing for workers
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Box 26 | Folder 14 |
Bridgeport, Connecticut -
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
re Bridgeport Housing Project problems with Portuguese Negro laborers.
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Box 26 | Folder 15 |
Buffalo, New York -
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
Field agent's report to Chamber of Commerce re building more housing for the increased
population of that area.
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Box 26 | Folder 16 |
Chicago, Illinois -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence re improving housing conditions for Negroes in Chicago; meetings with
Rental Division of the Chicago Real Estate Board; and miscellaneous.
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Box 26 | Folder 17 |
Cleveland, Ohio -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
field agent's summary of official visit to Cleveland; resolutions re rent profiteering;
minutes; complaints re housing costs.
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Box 26 | Folder 18 |
Columbus, Ohio -
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence re solutions for Columbus Negro housing problems.
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Box 26 | Folder 19 |
Detroit, Michigan -
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
letter re Negroes forcing Italians out of certain sections of the city.
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Box 26 | Folder 20 |
Minneapolis, Minnesota -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
re critical housing situation.
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Box 26 | Folder 21 |
Newport News, Virginia -
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
re values of various properties, reports on housing projects, estimates of costs for
projects, statistical information.
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Box 26 | Folder 22 |
Nitro, West Virginia -
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Scope and Contents
report re boarding conditions at plant in Nitro. No date.
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Box 27 |
U.S. Housing Administration. Files.
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Box 27 | Folder 1 |
Norfolk, Virginia -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates
of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.
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Box 27 | Folder 2 |
Norfolk, Virginia -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates
of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.
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Box 27 | Folder 3 |
Omaha, Nebraska -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
field agent's reports of official visit to Omaha re housing conditions.
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Box 27 | Folder 4 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence with R.R. Wright, President of the Colored Protective Association re
not wanting a white person on commission of living conditions for Negroes in Philadelphia.
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Box 27 | Folder 5 |
Richmond, Virginia -
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
re housing conditions for Negroes.
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Box 27 | Folder 6 |
Saint Paul, Minnesota -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
report re official visit to Saint Paul concerning housing conditions.
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Box 27 | Folder 7 |
Truxton, Virginia -
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1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction
of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
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Box 27 | Folder 8 |
Truxton, Virginia
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1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction
of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
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Box 27 | Folder 9 |
Truxton, Virginia
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1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction
of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
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Box 27 | Folder 10 |
Truxton, Virginia -
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1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction
of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
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Box 27 | Folder 11 |
Truxton, Virginia -
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1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction
of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
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Box 27 | Folder 12 |
Washington, DC -
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
correspondence, reports re housing.
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Box 27 | Folder 13 |
Youngstown, Ohio -
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
re housing conditions
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Box 28 |
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Survey Files.
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Box 28 | Folder 1 |
"Daily Record of Family Expenses"
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
Includes information on Black families re wages, occupation, number of meals at home,
and daily record of expenditures.
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Box 28 | Folder 2 |
"Cost of Living in the Year Ending July 31, 1918" -
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1917-1918 |
Scope and Contents
Includes information on white households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing,
utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.
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Box 28 | Folder 3 |
"Cost of Living in the Year Ending July 31, 1918"
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1917-1918 |
Scope and Contents
Includes information on Black households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing,
utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.
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Box 28 | Folder 4 |
"Record of Food Consumption for One Work" -
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1936 |
Scope and Contents
Includes record of food brought into the home for a one-week period. Also includes
data on income, rent, occupation and inventory of food on hand of Black households.
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Box 28 | Folder 5 |
"Family Disbursements of Wage Earners and Salaried Workers" -
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1936 |
Scope and Contents
Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditures for housing, clothing, transportation,
medical care, education of Black households.
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Box 29 |
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Survey Files. Miscellaneous.
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Box 29 | Folder 1 |
"Family Disbursements of Wage Earners and Salaried Workers" -
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1936 |
Scope and Contents
Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditure for housing, clothing, transportation,
medical care, education of white households.
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Box 29 | Folder 2 |
"Family Disbursements of Wage Earners and Salaried Workers" -
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1936 |
Scope and Contents
Includes data on occupation, income and expenditures for housing, clothing, transportation,
medical care, education of white households. Additional data given re housing description,
assets and liabilities.
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Box 29 | Folder 3 |
National Federation of Colored Farmers, James P. Davis, President.
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1930-1931 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence re complaints about Red Cross relief; reports; Hearing transcript,
accusing Red Cross of refusing aid to a farmer in Mississippi; clippings.
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Box 29 | Folder 4 |
"Negro Education, General Survey, Methods and Scope of the Study, Summary of Educational
Facilities." United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Reprint.
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1916 |
Box 29 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous index cards
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