Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
"Records relate to agricultural labor, industrial work, unionism, housing, race relations, returning veterans and their search for employment and the process of migration from the South to the North." (from Introduction by James R. Gross, editor). Reels 10-11 contain the records of the U.S. Railroad Administration's Women's Service Section. Reels 16-19 of this collection include records from the U.S. Women's Bureau concerning black women.
Dates
- 1916-1925
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Extent
2.78 cubic feet
Abstract
"Records relate to agricultural labor, industrial work, unionism, housing, race relations, returning veterans and their search for employment and the process of migration from the South to the North." (from Introduction by James R. Gross, editor). Reels 10-11 contain the records of the U.S. Railroad Administration's Women's Service Section. Reels 16-19 of this collection include records from the U.S. Women's Bureau concerning black women.
Quantity:
25 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Records, microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, April 02, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, April 02, 2019
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century
- African-Americans -- Migrations -- Southern States
- Discrimination in employment -- History -- 20th century
- Labor unions, Black -- Membership -- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Title
- Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 02, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853