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Box 17

 Container

Contains 24 Results:

Missouri - Survey -, 1936-1938

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Report on the relationship between the Missouri State Employment Service and Black job applicants. Statistics include population, emergency relief recipients, occupations, local industry, job applicants and employee placements from the service divided by race for Saint Louis, Kansas City, and Missouri. Conference report concerning the service and Black employment.

Dates: 1936-1938

Nebraska - Survey -, 1936

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1936

New Jersey - Complaints -, 1934-1939

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Black job applicants request aid in securing employment. Charges that Black migrants are depressing the farmhand wages and of alleged discrimination against Blacks in the shipbuilding industry in New Jersey.

Dates: 1934-1939

New Jersey - General Correspondence -, 1938-1939

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1938-1939

New Jersey - Survey -, 1938

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1938

New York - Complaints -, 1934-1940

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Alleged discrimination against Blacks including barriers to entry into PWA employment where a closed shop agreement existed and labor unions bar Blacks from membership. Political cartoons and comments depicting discrimination against Blacks. Black job applicants requesting aid in securing employment.

Dates: 1934-1940

New York City - Housing Authority - Harlem Family Income Survey -, 1935

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1935

New York State - Harlem -, 1934-1940

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Annual reports from the Men's Industrial Service, Youth Statistics Divisions of the New York State Employment Service office in Harlem. Includes statistics on job applicants and placements.

Dates: 1934-1940