National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers

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

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."

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

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"

Correspondence re the wage differentials between Black and white laborers

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

Correspondence re wage differentials (regional and racial); code definition of gin workers; request for exemptions under the code

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

Includes "Report of the Agriculture Committee of the Inter-Departmental Group Concerned with the Special Problem of Negroes, May 1934," 16 pages

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Correspondence from individuals and organizations including Kansas State Association of Colored Women requesting relief from economic conditions.

Correspondence from Laboring men's Protective Association to General Johnson and reply; cites racial discrimination and request for appointment of Black to NRA.

Correspondence requesting relief from economic conditions in fertilizer, tobacco, laundry and cleaning, and agricultural industries

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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

Correspondence regarding economic conditions, racial and marital discrimination seeking relief through NRA

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.

Correspondence re race discrimination within the industry codes; 18 page mimeo, "Tuskegees' Service in National Recovery;" and routine correspondence

routine

routine correspondence re discrimination

Correspondence re exploitation of household servants; from various YMCA organizations re discrimination in employment

11a- Long Island Railroad (1919)

18a - Southern Pacific (1918)

includes reports by the NRA Division of Research and Planning on the industry; Correspondence and memos, petitions re minimum wage for crab packers

correspondence, reports, re reduction of minimum wage in this industry

correspondence, memos, reports, re classification of cotton gin workers, whether its industrial or agricultural

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

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

December 28, 1933

December 13, 1933 (incomplete)

January 10, 1934 (Incomplete) 3a- Cinders, Ashes and Scavenger Industry, NRA (December 6 1933)

April 23, 1934

September 25, 1934

October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935

October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935

October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935

October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935

January 8, 1935

March 10, 1934

December 19, 1933

June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934

June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934

December 16. 1933 3a- Fertilizer Industry, NRA (June 6 1933)

May 31 1934

January 8 1934

August 20, 1934 6a- Ice Industry, NRA (9/8/33)

March 21 1934

March 21, 1934

May 7, 1935

March 9, 1934

October 23, 1933

November 27, 1933

December 8, 1934

NRA: June 5, 1934 NIRA: May 22, 1935

January 25, 1935

October 20, 1933 6a - Retail Merchandising Industry, NRA 7/2/1934 6b - Retail Solid Fuel Industry, NRA 11/13/33

August 20, 1934 7a - Scrap, Iron, Non Ferrous Industry, NRA 10/2/1934

October 5, 1933

September 5 and 7 1933

August 23, 1933

February 13 1934

October 30, 1933 12a - Waste Material Industry, NRA, October 11, 1933

February 1, 2 1935

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

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

Requests for information about Blacks and the New Deal. Favorable information to be used to swing Blacks to the Democratic political party.

Correspondence re Black job applicants requesting aid to secure employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps

Requests for information on Blacks in the New Deal

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.

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

Correspondence concerning alleged discrimination against Black elevator operators in the various federal buildings in Washington, DC

Proceedings of the Institute on Routine documents

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

Information about Blacks in National Defense and Industry. Alleged racial discrimination in Maryland. Includes statistics on industry and employees. Describes attitudes towards Black employees.

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.

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.

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

Routine documentation

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.

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

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.

Correspondence re the formulation of rules for protection of Blacks using buses and trucks

Routine announcements

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.

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.

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.

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.

Routine internal administrative correspondence

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.

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

Correspondence and petitions from Blacks alleging racial discrimination and requesting to be sent to Africa

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.

Detailed accounts of Lawrence Oxley's action as Chief, Division of Black Labor.

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.

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.

Includes routine internal administrative correspondence

Documents soliciting various state employment services for eligible Black job applicants to work on a Works Progress Administration project. Surveying Black white-collar employees.

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.

Documents re Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment at the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department.

Letters from Blacks complaining of discrimination in staffing and employment from various parts of the country.

Correspondence re Lawrence Oxley's attempts at ensuring employment Black job applicants in the newly created National Archives

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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.

Bibliography on the tobacco industry. Questionnaire schedule used for Black and white employees of the tobacco industry.

Alleged discrimination against Black railroad workers by American Federation of Labor railroad unions, resulting in unemployment.

Statistics on unemployment divided by race for Arizona, Delaware, and New Hampshire

Requests for office space from Black contacts for a WPA study concerning Black white-collar employees.

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.

Weekly report on the articles found in Black newspapers concerning the Works Progress Administration.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Works Progress Administration projects at Savannah, Georgia.

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.

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.

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.

Concerning a conference to be held with the Alabama State Employment Service on the problems of Black employment and racial discrimination.

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.

Newspaper article and correspondence re the opening of a Black employment service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arizona State Employment Service.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arkansas State Employment Service concerning civil service merit examinations and eligible lists in Little Rock.

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.

Alleged discriminations against Blacks in staffing by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Shasta Dam Project, Shasta County, Tulare California.

Correspondence re WPA funding for study of Black unemployment in California. Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the California State Employment Service.

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.

Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Colorado State Employment Service in civil service merit examinations and staffing.

Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients and unemployment in Colorado and Denver.

List of members and conference report of the State Advisory Council of the Connecticut State Employment Service.

Statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients and occupations of Blacks in Hartford, New Haven and Connecticut.

alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Delaware State Employment Service

Statistics on population, 1910-1935, emergency relief recipients, unemployment and occupations divided by race in Wilmington and Delaware.

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.

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.

Statistics on occupational groups of job applicants to Florida State Employment Service, divided by race.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the WPA

Black job applicants request aid in securing employment with the Illinois State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Black job applicant requests aid in securing a position with the Indiana State Employment Service.

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.

Excerpts from a PWA Inspection Report alleging discriminations against Blacks by government officials and labor unions.

Racial Statistics on the occupational groups of job applicants and employee placements from the Kansas State Employment Service.

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.

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.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the Louisiana State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.

Correspondence arranging conference with the Louisiana State Employment Service concerning Black employment. Discrimination against a potential Black employee of the Service.

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.

alleged discrimination against Blacks in private sector industry and emergency relief projects in Maryland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Michigan State Employment Service. Complaints of unemployment and poverty.

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.

Text from radio program about employment of Blacks by Michigan State Employment Service. Report on conference with service relating to Black employment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Missouri State Employment Service.

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.

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.

racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, and occupations divided by race in Omaha and Nebraska.

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.

Correspondence arranging conferences with New Jersey State Employment Service concerning Black employment. Letters from Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.

Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations and unemployment divided by race in Jersey City, Newark, Camden, and New Jersey.

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.

Survey containing statistics on sources of income, percentage of income for rent, population density, composition of the family by race.

Correspondence arranging conference with the New York State Employment Service concerning Black employees.

Proposal for study of the relationship of the New York State Employment Service with Blacks.

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.

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.

Routine correspondence

Statistics concerning job applicants and employee placements of the New York State Employment Service and the National Re-Employment Service.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Blacks by North Carolina State Employment Service and private sector employers.

Routine correspondence.

Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Pamphlet on North Carolina Committee on Black Affairs and a conference program for Black social workers.

Alleged discrimination against Black employee in the North Carolina State Employment Services.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Ohio State Employment Service.

Detailed report and statistics on population, race, characteristics, age, sex, employment, unemployment, marital status, religious affiliation, births, and deaths in Hamilton County.

Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Ohio State Employment Service, Columbus, office. Report on conference.

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.

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.

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.

Report on conference concerning Black job applicants and employee placements with the Ohio State Employment Service, Cincinnati Office.

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.

Correspondence arranging conference with Oklahoma State Employment Service.

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.

Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Pennsylvania State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.

Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania State Employment Service.

Routine correspondence.

Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania State Employment Service. Radio broadcast concerning Black employment by the service.

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.

Fourth Annual Report of the Rhode Island Unemployment Compensation Board to the Governor for transmission to the General Assembly.

Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the south Carolina State Employment Service.

Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, job applicants, and employee placements divided by race in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, and South Carolina.

Alleged discrimination against Black person complaining of violence, unemployment, and poverty.

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.

Correspondence concerning an exhibit by the Labor Department which portrays American workers including Blacks at the Texas Centennial.

Answer to a complaint of discrimination against Blacks.

Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Texas State Employment Service. Alleged racial discrimination in staffing by the Service.

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.

Correspondence alleging discrimination against Blacks by the Virginia State Employment Service in civil service competitive examinations. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.

Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Virginia State Employment Service. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.

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.

Letters protesting replacement of incompetent B lack worker with unsympathetic white worker at the Washington, DC Employment Service.

Conference on the problems of vocational and secondary schools.

Correspondence arranging meeting with the Board of Public Welfare to discuss Black problems.

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.

Replies to letters alleging discrimination against Blacks.

Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the West Virginia State Employment Service.

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.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.

Includes routine correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.

March 5, 1918

6a - Minneapolis Strike - 1917 - re Great Northern importing Negroes to replace white labor.

includes memos from Division of Negro Economics to Director of United States Bureau of Housing and Transportation re housing conditions and Negro home registrations.

field agent for United States Homes Registration Committee, correspondence re setting up colored registries in the Central West.

correspondence with United States Housing Corporation re application for construction of housing for Negroes in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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.

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.

Manage, Homes Registration and Information Service, correspondence re organizing Negro registries for various cities, bad housing conditions in Northern industrial centers.

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.

Field agent, correspondence and daily reports re summary of day's work and persons and places visited.

correspondence re the establishment of room registration offices for dealing with colored people in cities; need for room registries for colored women.

Miscellaneous correspondence and reports re housing in Newport News - Briarfield, Virginia; school needs in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Truxton, and Craddock, Virginia.

file re Negro housing, Negro population and joint resolution for relief of citizens of Truxton, Virginia re its housing corporation.

Field agent's detailed report re critical rooming and housing situation and problems with getting recommendations approved.

correspondence re providing housing for workers

re Bridgeport Housing Project problems with Portuguese Negro laborers.

Field agent's report to Chamber of Commerce re building more housing for the increased population of that area.

correspondence re improving housing conditions for Negroes in Chicago; meetings with Rental Division of the Chicago Real Estate Board; and miscellaneous.

field agent's summary of official visit to Cleveland; resolutions re rent profiteering; minutes; complaints re housing costs.

correspondence re solutions for Columbus Negro housing problems.

letter re Negroes forcing Italians out of certain sections of the city.

re critical housing situation.

re values of various properties, reports on housing projects, estimates of costs for projects, statistical information.

report re boarding conditions at plant in Nitro. No date.

re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.

re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.

field agent's reports of official visit to Omaha re housing conditions.

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.

re housing conditions for Negroes.

report re official visit to Saint Paul concerning housing conditions.

correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.

correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.

correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.

correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.

correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.

correspondence, reports re housing.

re housing conditions

Includes information on Black families re wages, occupation, number of meals at home, and daily record of expenditures.

Includes information on white households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing, utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.

Includes information on Black households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing, utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.

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.

Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditures for housing, clothing, transportation, medical care, education of Black households.

Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditure for housing, clothing, transportation, medical care, education of white households.

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.

Includes correspondence re complaints about Red Cross relief; reports; Hearing transcript, accusing Red Cross of refusing aid to a farmer in Mississippi; clippings.