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

Collection Number: 5584

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers, 1916- 1943
Collection Number:
5584
Creator:
National Archives and Records Service
Quantity:
15 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

SUBJECTS

Names:
United States. National Archives and Records Service.

Subjects:
African Americans -- History -- Sources

Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)


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RELATED MATERIALS

Related Collections:
5584 A: National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers
5584 mf: National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers on Microfilm

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Box 1 Folder 1 1933-1934
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
Box 1 Folder 2 1934
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."
Box 1 Folder 3 1933-1934
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
Box 1 Folder 4 1933-1934
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"
Box 1 Folder 5 1933
Correspondence re the wage differentials between Black and white laborers
Box 1 Folder 6 1933
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
Box 1 Folder 7 1934-1935
Correspondence re wage differentials (regional and racial); code definition of gin workers; request for exemptions under the code
Box 1 Folder 8 1934-1943
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
Box 1 Folder 9 1934
Includes "Report of the Agriculture Committee of the Inter-Departmental Group Concerned with the Special Problem of Negroes, May 1934," 16 pages
Box 1 Folder 10
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
Box 2
Box 2 Folder 1 1933-1934
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.
Box 2 Folder 2 1926-1933
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.
Box 2 Folder 3 1932-1935
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.
Box 2 Folder 4 1933-1934
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.
Box 2 Folder 5 1933-1934
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.
Box 2 Folder 6 1933
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.
Box 2 Folder 7 1933-1934
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.
Box 2 Folder 8 1933-1934
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.
Box 2 Folder 9 1933-1935
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.
Box 2 Folder 10
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.
Box 2 Folder 11 1933-1934
Correspondence from individuals and organizations including Kansas State Association of Colored Women requesting relief from economic conditions.
Box 2 Folder 12 1935
Correspondence from Laboring men's Protective Association to General Johnson and reply; cites racial discrimination and request for appointment of Black to NRA.
Box 2 Folder 13 1933-1934
Correspondence requesting relief from economic conditions in fertilizer, tobacco, laundry and cleaning, and agricultural industries
Box 3
Box 3 Folder 1 1933
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.
Box 3 Folder 2 1933-1934
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
Box 3 Folder 3 1933
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.
Box 3 Folder 4 1933-1934
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.
Box 3 Folder 5 1933
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)
Box 3 Folder 6 1926-1933
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
Box 3 Folder 7 1926-1933
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
Box 3 Folder 8 1933-1934
Correspondence regarding economic conditions, racial and marital discrimination seeking relief through NRA
Box 3 Folder 9 1933
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.
Box 3 Folder 10 1933-1935
Correspondence re race discrimination within the industry codes; 18 page mimeo, "Tuskegees' Service in National Recovery;" and routine correspondence
Box 3 Folder 11 1933
routine
Box 3 Folder 12 1933
routine correspondence re discrimination
Box 3 Folder 13 1933
Correspondence re exploitation of household servants; from various YMCA organizations re discrimination in employment
Box 4
Box 4 Folder 1 1920
Box 4 Folder 2 1918-1919
Box 4 Folder 3 1918
Box 4 Folder 4 1920
Box 4 Folder 5 1919
Box 4 Folder 6 1919
Box 4 Folder 7 1919
Box 4 Folder 8 1919
Box 4 Folder 9 1918-1919
Box 4 Folder 10 1919
Box 4 Folder 11 1918
11a- Long Island Railroad (1919)
Box 4 Folder 12 1919
Box 4 Folder 13 1918-1919
Box 4 Folder 14 1918-1919
Box 4 Folder 15 1918-1919
Box 4 Folder 16 1919-1920
Box 4 Folder 17 1920
Box 4 Folder 18 1918
18a - Southern Pacific (1918)
Box 4 Folder 19 1920
Box 4 Folder 20 1920
Box 4 Folder 21 1918
Box 4 Folder 22 1919
Box 5
Box 5 Folder 1 1934-1935
includes reports by the NRA Division of Research and Planning on the industry; Correspondence and memos, petitions re minimum wage for crab packers
Box 5 Folder 2 1934
correspondence, reports, re reduction of minimum wage in this industry
Box 5 Folder 3 1934
correspondence, memos, reports, re classification of cotton gin workers, whether its industrial or agricultural
Box 5 Folder 4 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
Box 5 Folder 5 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
Box 6
Box 6 Folder 1 1933
December 28, 1933
Box 6 Folder 2 1933
December 13, 1933 (incomplete)
Box 6 Folder 3 1934
January 10, 1934 (Incomplete) 3a- Cinders, Ashes and Scavenger Industry, NRA (December 6 1933)
Box 6 Folder 4 1934
April 23, 1934
Box 6 Folder 5 1934
September 25, 1934
Box 6 Folder 6 1934-1935
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
Box 6 Folder 7 1934-1935
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
Box 6 Folder 8 1934-1935
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
Box 6 Folder 9 1934-1935
October 9, 1934; March 9, 1934; May 9, 1935; May 17, 1935
Box 6 Folder 10 1935
January 8, 1935
Box 6 Folder 11 1934
March 10, 1934
Box 6 Folder 12 1933
December 19, 1933
Box 7
Box 7 Folder 1 1933-1934
June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934
Box 7 Folder 2 1933-1934
June 29, 1933, October 9, 1934
Box 7 Folder 3 1933
December 16. 1933 3a- Fertilizer Industry, NRA (June 6 1933)
Box 7 Folder 4 1934
May 31 1934
Box 7 Folder 5 1934
January 8 1934
Box 7 Folder 6 1934
August 20, 1934 6a- Ice Industry, NRA (9/8/33)
Box 7 Folder 7
Box 7 Folder 8 1934
March 21 1934
Box 7 Folder 9 1934
March 21, 1934
Box 7 Folder 10 1935
May 7, 1935
Box 7 Folder 11 1934
March 9, 1934
Box 8
Box 8 Folder 1 1933
October 23, 1933
Box 8 Folder 2 1933
November 27, 1933
Box 8 Folder 3 1934
December 8, 1934
Box 8 Folder 4 1934-1935
NRA: June 5, 1934 NIRA: May 22, 1935
Box 8 Folder 5 1935
January 25, 1935
Box 8 Folder 6 1933
October 20, 1933 6a - Retail Merchandising Industry, NRA 7/2/1934 6b - Retail Solid Fuel Industry, NRA 11/13/33
Box 8 Folder 7 1934
August 20, 1934 7a - Scrap, Iron, Non Ferrous Industry, NRA 10/2/1934
Box 8 Folder 8 1933
October 5, 1933
Box 8 Folder 9 1933
September 5 and 7 1933
Box 8 Folder 10 1933
August 23, 1933
Box 8 Folder 11 1934
February 13 1934
Box 8 Folder 12 1933
October 30, 1933 12a - Waste Material Industry, NRA, October 11, 1933
Box 8 Folder 13 1935
February 1, 2 1935
Box 9
Box 9 Folder 1 1936
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
Box 9 Folder 2 1933-1935
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
Box 9 Folder 3 1934-1937
Requests for information about Blacks and the New Deal. Favorable information to be used to swing Blacks to the Democratic political party.
Box 9 Folder 4 1934-1936
Correspondence re Black job applicants requesting aid to secure employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps
Box 9 Folder 5 1935-1937
Requests for information on Blacks in the New Deal
Box 9 Folder 6 1939-1941
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.
Box 9 Folder 7 1934-1935
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
Box 9 Folder 8 1934-1935
Correspondence concerning alleged discrimination against Black elevator operators in the various federal buildings in Washington, DC
Box 9 Folder 9 1941
Proceedings of the Institute on Routine documents
Box 9 Folder 10 1934-1936
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
Box 9 Folder 11 1941-1942
Information about Blacks in National Defense and Industry. Alleged racial discrimination in Maryland. Includes statistics on industry and employees. Describes attitudes towards Black employees.
Box 10
Box 10 Folder 1 1941-1942
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.
Box 10 Folder 2 1941-1942
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.
Box 10 Folder 3 1933-1936
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
Box 10 Folder 4 1936
Routine documentation
Box 10 Folder 5 1933-1937
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.
Box 10 Folder 6 1933-1934
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
Box 10 Folder 7 1936-1937
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.
Box 10 Folder 8 1935
Correspondence re the formulation of rules for protection of Blacks using buses and trucks
Box 10 Folder 9 1937
Routine announcements
Box 10 Folder 10 1922-1934
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.
Box 10 Folder 11 1932-1939
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.
Box 10 Folder 12 1939
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.
Box 11
Box 11 Folder 1 1934-1939
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.
Box 11 Folder 2 1934-1937
Routine internal administrative correspondence
Box 11 Folder 3 1934-1936
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.
Box 11 Folder 4 1930-1935
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
Box 11 Folder 5 1932-1936
Correspondence and petitions from Blacks alleging racial discrimination and requesting to be sent to Africa
Box 11 Folder 6 1934-1939
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.
Box 11 Folder 7 1935-1937
Detailed accounts of Lawrence Oxley's action as Chief, Division of Black Labor.
Box 11 Folder 8 1934-1937
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.
Box 11 Folder 9 1934-1936
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.
Box 11 Folder 10 1934-1939
Includes routine internal administrative correspondence
Box 12
Box 12 Folder 1 1935
Documents soliciting various state employment services for eligible Black job applicants to work on a Works Progress Administration project. Surveying Black white-collar employees.
Box 12 Folder 2 1933-1940
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.
Box 12 Folder 3 1938-1939
Documents re Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment at the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department.
Box 12 Folder 4 1928-1937
Letters from Blacks complaining of discrimination in staffing and employment from various parts of the country.
Box 12 Folder 5 1934-1937
Correspondence re Lawrence Oxley's attempts at ensuring employment Black job applicants in the newly created National Archives
Box 12 Folder 6 1934-1935
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.
Box 12 Folder 7 1934-1938
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.
Box 12 Folder 8 1933-1935
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.
Box 12 Folder 9 1935
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.
Box 13
Box 13 Folder 1 1934-1935
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.
Box 13 Folder 2 1934-1936
"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.
Box 13 Folder 3 1934
"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.
Box 13 Folder 4 1933-1941
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.
Box 13 Folder 5 1935-1936
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.
Box 13 Folder 6 1934-1936
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.
Box 13 Folder 7 1935
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.
Box 13 Folder 8 1936
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.
Box 13 Folder 9 1934-1938
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.
Box 14
Box 14 Folder 1 1935-1937
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Box 14 Folder 2 1934-1935
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.
Box 14 Folder 3 1935
Bibliography on the tobacco industry. Questionnaire schedule used for Black and white employees of the tobacco industry.
Box 14 Folder 4 1934-1936
Alleged discrimination against Black railroad workers by American Federation of Labor railroad unions, resulting in unemployment.
Box 14 Folder 5 1937-1938
Statistics on unemployment divided by race for Arizona, Delaware, and New Hampshire
Box 14 Folder 6 1935
Requests for office space from Black contacts for a WPA study concerning Black white-collar employees.
Box 14 Folder 7 1935-1938
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.
Box 14 Folder 8 1937-1938
Weekly report on the articles found in Black newspapers concerning the Works Progress Administration.
Box 14 Folder 9 1934-1936
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing and employment with the Works Progress Administration projects at Savannah, Georgia.
Box 14 Folder 10 1934-1938
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.
Box 14 Folder 11 1934-1935
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.
Box 15
Box 15 Folder 1 1937
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.
Box 15 Folder 2 1936-1938
Concerning a conference to be held with the Alabama State Employment Service on the problems of Black employment and racial discrimination.
Box 15 Folder 3 1934-1938
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.
Box 15 Folder 4 1938-1939
Newspaper article and correspondence re the opening of a Black employment service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arizona State Employment Service.
Box 15 Folder 5 1938-1939
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by Arkansas State Employment Service concerning civil service merit examinations and eligible lists in Little Rock.
Box 15 Folder 6 1936
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.
Box 15 Folder 7 1938-1939
Alleged discriminations against Blacks in staffing by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Shasta Dam Project, Shasta County, Tulare California.
Box 15 Folder 8 1938-1939
Correspondence re WPA funding for study of Black unemployment in California. Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the California State Employment Service.
Box 15 Folder 9 1936
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.
Box 15 Folder 10 1934
Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Colorado State Employment Service in civil service merit examinations and staffing.
Box 15 Folder 11 1933
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients and unemployment in Colorado and Denver.
Box 15 Folder 12 1939
List of members and conference report of the State Advisory Council of the Connecticut State Employment Service.
Box 15 Folder 13 1938
Statistics on population, 1910-1933, emergency relief recipients and occupations of Blacks in Hartford, New Haven and Connecticut.
Box 15 Folder 14 1938-1939
alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Delaware State Employment Service
Box 15 Folder 15 1933
Statistics on population, 1910-1935, emergency relief recipients, unemployment and occupations divided by race in Wilmington and Delaware.
Box 15 Folder 16 1936-1939
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.
Box 15 Folder 17 1936-1939
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.
Box 15 Folder 18 1936-1937
Statistics on occupational groups of job applicants to Florida State Employment Service, divided by race.
Box 15 Folder 19 1937-1938
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.
Box 15 Folder 20 1936-1938
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.
Box 15 Folder 21 1936-1938
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.
Box 16
Box 16 Folder 1 1940
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.
Box 16 Folder 2 1934-1935
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.
Box 16 Folder 3 1934-1937
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the WPA
Box 16 Folder 4 1939
Black job applicants request aid in securing employment with the Illinois State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the service.
Box 16 Folder 5 1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 6 1936-1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 7 1936-1938
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.
Box 16 Folder 8 1936-1937
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.
Box 16 Folder 9 1936-1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 10 1937-1938
Black job applicant requests aid in securing a position with the Indiana State Employment Service.
Box 16 Folder 11 1936
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.
Box 16 Folder 12 1936
Excerpts from a PWA Inspection Report alleging discriminations against Blacks by government officials and labor unions.
Box 16 Folder 13 1936-1937
Racial Statistics on the occupational groups of job applicants and employee placements from the Kansas State Employment Service.
Box 16 Folder 14 1937-1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 15 1937-1940
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.
Box 16 Folder 16 1937-1938
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.
Box 16 Folder 17 1937-1938
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by the Louisiana State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.
Box 16 Folder 18 1937-1938
Correspondence arranging conference with the Louisiana State Employment Service concerning Black employment. Discrimination against a potential Black employee of the Service.
Box 16 Folder 19 1936-1938
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.
Box 16 Folder 20 1937
alleged discrimination against Blacks in private sector industry and emergency relief projects in Maryland.
Box 16 Folder 21 1936-1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 22 1936
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.
Box 16 Folder 23 1937-1939
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.
Box 16 Folder 24 1937
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.
Box 17
Box 17 Folder 1 1938
Alleged discrimination against a Black man by Michigan State Employment Service. Complaints of unemployment and poverty.
Box 17 Folder 2 1940
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.
Box 17 Folder 3 1937-1940
Text from radio program about employment of Blacks by Michigan State Employment Service. Report on conference with service relating to Black employment.
Box 17 Folder 4 1937-1940
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.
Box 17 Folder 5 1938-1939
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.
Box 17 Folder 6 1937-1938
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.
Box 17 Folder 7 1937
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.
Box 17 Folder 8 1934-1938
Alleged discrimination against Blacks in staffing by the Missouri State Employment Service.
Box 17 Folder 9 1936-1940
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.
Box 17 Folder 10 1936-1938
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.
Box 17 Folder 11 1936
racial statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, and occupations divided by race in Omaha and Nebraska.
Box 17 Folder 12 1934-1939
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.
Box 17 Folder 13 1938-1939
Correspondence arranging conferences with New Jersey State Employment Service concerning Black employment. Letters from Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
Box 17 Folder 14 1938
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations and unemployment divided by race in Jersey City, Newark, Camden, and New Jersey.
Box 17 Folder 15 1934-1940
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.
Box 17 Folder 16 1935
Survey containing statistics on sources of income, percentage of income for rent, population density, composition of the family by race.
Box 17 Folder 17 1936-1938
Correspondence arranging conference with the New York State Employment Service concerning Black employees.
Box 17 Folder 18 1937
Proposal for study of the relationship of the New York State Employment Service with Blacks.
Box 17 Folder 19 1934-1940
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.
Box 17 Folder 20 1936-1939
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.
Box 17 Folder 21 1937
Routine correspondence
Box 17 Folder 22 1936-1937
Statistics concerning job applicants and employee placements of the New York State Employment Service and the National Re-Employment Service.
Box 17 Folder 23 1937-1938
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.
Box 18
Box 18 Folder 1 1935-1938
Alleged discrimination against Blacks by North Carolina State Employment Service and private sector employers.
Box 18 Folder 2 1937
Routine correspondence.
Box 18 Folder 3 1934-1940
Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Pamphlet on North Carolina Committee on Black Affairs and a conference program for Black social workers.
Box 18 Folder 4 1938-1939
Alleged discrimination against Black employee in the North Carolina State Employment Services.
Box 18 Folder 5 1937
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.
Box 18 Folder 6 1937
Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Ohio State Employment Service.
Box 18 Folder 7 1935
Detailed report and statistics on population, race, characteristics, age, sex, employment, unemployment, marital status, religious affiliation, births, and deaths in Hamilton County.
Box 18 Folder 8 1938-1939
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Ohio State Employment Service, Columbus, office. Report on conference.
Box 18 Folder 9 1936-1939
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.
Box 18 Folder 10 1939-1940
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.
Box 18 Folder 11 1935-1937
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.
Box 18 Folder 12 1937
Report on conference concerning Black job applicants and employee placements with the Ohio State Employment Service, Cincinnati Office.
Box 18 Folder 13 1936-1937
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.
Box 18 Folder 14 1937-1938
Correspondence arranging conference with Oklahoma State Employment Service.
Box 18 Folder 15 1938
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.
Box 18 Folder 16 1936-1939
Alleged discrimination against Black job applicants by the Pennsylvania State Employment Service. Alleged discrimination against Blacks resulting in unemployment and poverty.
Box 18 Folder 17 1938-1939
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania State Employment Service.
Box 18 Folder 18 1936
Routine correspondence.
Box 18 Folder 19 1934-1939
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the Pennsylvania State Employment Service. Radio broadcast concerning Black employment by the service.
Box 18 Folder 20 1936-1939
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.
Box 19
Box 19 Folder 1 1939
Fourth Annual Report of the Rhode Island Unemployment Compensation Board to the Governor for transmission to the General Assembly.
Box 19 Folder 2 1936-1939
Correspondence arranging conference concerning Black employment with the south Carolina State Employment Service.
Box 19 Folder 3 1937
Statistics on population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, job applicants, and employee placements divided by race in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, and South Carolina.
Box 19 Folder 4 1937-1938
Alleged discrimination against Black person complaining of violence, unemployment, and poverty.
Box 19 Folder 5 1936-1937
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.
Box 19 Folder 6 1936
Correspondence concerning an exhibit by the Labor Department which portrays American workers including Blacks at the Texas Centennial.
Box 19 Folder 7 1937
Answer to a complaint of discrimination against Blacks.
Box 19 Folder 8 1937-1939
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Texas State Employment Service. Alleged racial discrimination in staffing by the Service.
Box 19 Folder 9 1936-1939
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.
Box 19 Folder 10 1937-1939
Correspondence alleging discrimination against Blacks by the Virginia State Employment Service in civil service competitive examinations. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
Box 19 Folder 11 1937-1939
Correspondence arranging conference on Black employment with the Virginia State Employment Service. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.
Box 19 Folder 12 1937-1939
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.
Box 19 Folder 13 1935-1937
Letters protesting replacement of incompetent B lack worker with unsympathetic white worker at the Washington, DC Employment Service.
Box 19 Folder 14 1934-1939
Conference on the problems of vocational and secondary schools.
Box 19 Folder 15 1937-1938
Correspondence arranging meeting with the Board of Public Welfare to discuss Black problems.
Box 19 Folder 16 1937-1938
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.
Box 19 Folder 17 1938
Replies to letters alleging discrimination against Blacks.
Box 19 Folder 18 1936-1938
Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment. Discrimination against Blacks in staffing at the West Virginia State Employment Service.
Box 19 Folder 19 1936-1938
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.
Box 20
Box 20 Folder 1 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 2 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 3 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 4 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 5 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 6 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 7 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 8 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 9 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 10 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 11 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 12 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 13 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 14 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 15 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 16 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 17 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 18 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 19 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 20 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 21 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 22 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 20 Folder 23 1934-1939
Includes routine correspondence requesting statistical data, pamphlets, department bulletins, bibliographies, and studies re Black labor. Filed alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 21
Box 21 Folder 1 1934-1938
Includes routine correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 2 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 3 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 4 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 5 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 6 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 7 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 8 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 9 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 10 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 11 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 12 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 13 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 14 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 15 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 16 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 17 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 18 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 21 Folder 19 1934-1938
Includes correspondence and completed application forms of job applicants. Filed alphabetically by applicant.
Box 22
Box 22 Folder 1 1925
Box 22 Folder 2 1925
Box 22 Folder 3 1929-1932
Box 22 Folder 4 1925
Box 22 Folder 5 1924
Box 22 Folder 6 1925-1928
Box 22 Folder 7 1926
Box 22 Folder 8 1924-1926
Box 22 Folder 9 1925
Box 22 Folder 10 1927
Box 22 Folder 11 1925
Box 22 Folder 12 1923
Box 22 Folder 13 1927-1930
Box 22 Folder 14 1925
Box 22 Folder 15 1931
Box 22 Folder 16 1931
Box 22 Folder 17 1929
Box 22 Folder 18 1929-1931
Box 22 Folder 19 1926
Box 22 Folder 20 1929
Box 22 Folder 21 1926- 1928
Box 22 Folder 22 1931- 1932
Box 22 Folder 23 1931
Box 22 Folder 24 1926
Box 22 Folder 25 1925-1927
Box 22 Folder 26 1925-1926
Box 22 Folder 27 1927
Box 22 Folder 28 1925
Box 22 Folder 29 1927
Box 22 Folder 30 1929-1930
Box 22 Folder 31 1925
Box 22 Folder 32 1927
Box 22 Folder 33 1925
Box 22 Folder 34 1925-1927
Box 22 Folder 35 1928
Box 22 Folder 36 1930
Box 22 Folder 37 1924
Box 22 Folder 38 1924
Box 22 Folder 39 1925
Box 22 Folder 40 1928-1930
Box 22 Folder 41 1926
Box 22 Folder 42 1930
Box 22 Folder 43 1930-1931
Box 22 Folder 44 1926-1929
Box 22 Folder 45 1928
Box 22 Folder 46 1929
Box 22 Folder 47 1925
Box 22 Folder 48 1924-1926
Box 22 Folder 49 1925-1926
Box 22 Folder 50 1925- 1926
Box 22 Folder 51 1924-1930
Box 22 Folder 52 1927
Box 22 Folder 53 1925-1928
Box 22 Folder 54 1925
Box 22 Folder 55 1925-1926
Box 22 Folder 56 1925
Box 22 Folder 57 1933
Box 22 Folder 58 1925
Box 22 Folder 59 1929-1930
Box 22 Folder 60 1924-1925
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Box 22 Folder 67 1932
Box 22 Folder 68 1927-1928
Box 22 Folder 69 1925
Box 22 Folder 70 1924-1925
Box 22 Folder 71 1925-1926
Box 22 Folder 72 1926-1929
Box 22 Folder 73 1924- 1926
Box 22 Folder 74 1930
Box 22 Folder 75 1925
Box 22 Folder 76 1927
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Box 22 Folder 78 1929
Box 22 Folder 79 1927-1929
Box 22 Folder 80 1928-1929
Box 22 Folder 81 1928
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Box 22 Folder 83 1924-1931
Box 22 Folder 84 1925
Box 22 Folder 85 1930-1931
Box 22 Folder 86 1926
Box 22 Folder 87 1925-1931
Box 22 Folder 88 1925
Box 22 Folder 89 1929
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Box 22 Folder 91 1924-1931
Box 22 Folder 92 1925
Box 22 Folder 93 1924-1927
Box 22 Folder 94 1931
Box 22 Folder 95 1925-1933
Box 22 Folder 96 1925
Box 22 Folder 97 1926
Box 22 Folder 98 1925
Box 22 Folder 99 1927-1928
Box 22 Folder 100 1924-1928
Box 22 Folder 101 1925
Box 22 Folder 102 1925
Box 22 Folder 103 1929-1930
Box 22 Folder 104 1925-1926
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Box 22 Folder 106 1926-1927
Box 22 Folder 107 1929-1931
Box 22 Folder 108 1924
Box 22 Folder 109 1928
Box 22 Folder 110 1929
Box 23
Box 23 Folder 1 1918-1921
Box 23 Folder 2 1918
Box 23 Folder 3 1918
Box 23 Folder 4 1919
Box 23 Folder 5 1919
Box 23 Folder 6 1920
Box 23 Folder 7 1920
Box 23 Folder 8 1921
Box 23 Folder 9
Box 23 Folder 10 1918-1919
Box 23 Folder 11 1918-1919
Box 23 Folder 12
Box 23 Folder 13 1919-1920
Box 24
Box 24 Folder 1 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 2 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 3 1918-1924
Box 24 Folder 4 1918
Box 24 Folder 5 1917-1918
Box 24 Folder 6 1918
Box 24 Folder 7 1918
Box 24 Folder 8 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 9 1918
Box 24 Folder 10 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 11 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 12 1918-1925
Box 24 Folder 13 1918-1921
Box 24 Folder 14 1917-1919
Box 24 Folder 15 1919-1921
Box 24 Folder 16 1918-1921
Box 25
Box 25 Folder 1 1918-1921
Box 25 Folder 2 1919-1928
Box 25 Folder 3 1918
March 5, 1918
Box 25 Folder 4 1920
Box 25 Folder 5 1918-1926
Box 25 Folder 6 1917- 1923
6a - Minneapolis Strike - 1917 - re Great Northern importing Negroes to replace white labor.
Box 25 Folder 7 1918-1921
Box 25 Folder 8 1918
Box 25 Folder 9 1918
Box 25 Folder 10 1918
Box 25 Folder 11 1918-1933
Box 25 Folder 12 1917-1932
Box 25 Folder 13 1918-1919
Box 25 Folder 14 1919-1928
Box 25 Folder 15 1918-1919
Box 25 Folder 16 1918-1926
Box 25 Folder 17 1919-1925
Box 26
Box 26 Folder 1 1919
includes memos from Division of Negro Economics to Director of United States Bureau of Housing and Transportation re housing conditions and Negro home registrations.
Box 26 Folder 2 1919
field agent for United States Homes Registration Committee, correspondence re setting up colored registries in the Central West.
Box 26 Folder 3 1918
correspondence with United States Housing Corporation re application for construction of housing for Negroes in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Box 26 Folder 4 1918-1919
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.
Box 26 Folder 5 1918
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.
Box 26 Folder 6 1918
Manage, Homes Registration and Information Service, correspondence re organizing Negro registries for various cities, bad housing conditions in Northern industrial centers.
Box 26 Folder 7 1918-1919
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.
Box 26 Folder 8 1918-1919
Field agent, correspondence and daily reports re summary of day's work and persons and places visited.
Box 26 Folder 9 1918-1919
correspondence re the establishment of room registration offices for dealing with colored people in cities; need for room registries for colored women.
Box 26 Folder 10 1918
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports re housing in Newport News - Briarfield, Virginia; school needs in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Truxton, and Craddock, Virginia.
Box 26 Folder 11 1918-1922
file re Negro housing, Negro population and joint resolution for relief of citizens of Truxton, Virginia re its housing corporation.
Box 26 Folder 12 1919
Field agent's detailed report re critical rooming and housing situation and problems with getting recommendations approved.
Box 26 Folder 13 1918
correspondence re providing housing for workers
Box 26 Folder 14 1918
re Bridgeport Housing Project problems with Portuguese Negro laborers.
Box 26 Folder 15 1917
Field agent's report to Chamber of Commerce re building more housing for the increased population of that area.
Box 26 Folder 16 1919
correspondence re improving housing conditions for Negroes in Chicago; meetings with Rental Division of the Chicago Real Estate Board; and miscellaneous.
Box 26 Folder 17 1918-1919
field agent's summary of official visit to Cleveland; resolutions re rent profiteering; minutes; complaints re housing costs.
Box 26 Folder 18 1917
correspondence re solutions for Columbus Negro housing problems.
Box 26 Folder 19 1917
letter re Negroes forcing Italians out of certain sections of the city.
Box 26 Folder 20 1919
re critical housing situation.
Box 26 Folder 21 1918
re values of various properties, reports on housing projects, estimates of costs for projects, statistical information.
Box 26 Folder 22
report re boarding conditions at plant in Nitro. No date.
Box 27
Box 27 Folder 1 1918-1919
re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.
Box 27 Folder 2 1918-1919
re housing project plans and reports for Norfolk and immediate vicinity; estimates of housing sites; living conditions of war workers; architects reports.
Box 27 Folder 3 1919
field agent's reports of official visit to Omaha re housing conditions.
Box 27 Folder 4 1919
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.
Box 27 Folder 5 1917
re housing conditions for Negroes.
Box 27 Folder 6 1919
report re official visit to Saint Paul concerning housing conditions.
Box 27 Folder 7 1919-1920
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
Box 27 Folder 8 1919-1920
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
Box 27 Folder 9 1919-1920
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
Box 27 Folder 10 1919-1920
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
Box 27 Folder 11 1919-1920
correspondence, reports, budgets re the Truxton Project; includes information on construction of development, census forms, Truxton employees.
Box 27 Folder 12 1918-1919
correspondence, reports re housing.
Box 27 Folder 13 1919
re housing conditions
Box 28
Box 28 Folder 1 1918
Includes information on Black families re wages, occupation, number of meals at home, and daily record of expenditures.
Box 28 Folder 2 1917-1918
Includes information on white households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing, utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.
Box 28 Folder 3 1917-1918
Includes information on Black households re annual expenses for food, clothing, housing, utilities, furnishings. Gives description of housing.
Box 28 Folder 4 1936
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.
Box 28 Folder 5 1936
Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditures for housing, clothing, transportation, medical care, education of Black households.
Box 29
Box 29 Folder 1 1936
Includes data on occupation, income, and expenditure for housing, clothing, transportation, medical care, education of white households.
Box 29 Folder 2 1936
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.
Box 29 Folder 3 1930-1931
Includes correspondence re complaints about Red Cross relief; reports; Hearing transcript, accusing Red Cross of refusing aid to a farmer in Mississippi; clippings.
Box 29 Folder 4 1916
Box 29 Folder 5