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
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
Names:
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Subjects:
African Americans -- History -- Sources
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
National Archives and Records Service Copies of Federal Documentation on Black Workers #5584.
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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 | |
Box 22 | Folder 61 | 1926 | |
Box 22 | Folder 62 | 1929 | |
Box 22 | Folder 63 | 1925 | |
Box 22 | Folder 64 | 1929 | |
Box 22 | Folder 65 | 1931 | |
Box 22 | Folder 66 | 1931 | |
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 | |
Box 22 | Folder 77 | 1926 | |
Box 22 | Folder 78 | 1929 | |
Box 22 | Folder 79 | 1927-1929 | |
Box 22 | Folder 80 | 1928-1929 | |
Box 22 | Folder 81 | 1928 | |
Box 22 | Folder 82 | 1925 | |
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 | |
Box 22 | Folder 90 | 1931 | |
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 | |
Box 22 | Folder 105 | 1926 | |
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 |