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African Americans -- Economic conditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Board of Research Associates in American Economic History papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 88
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, studies, minutes of meetings, circular letters, financial reports, outlines of proposed surveys, annual reports, departmental reports, and monographs relative to the established purpose of the Board, which was sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Economics and Sociology. Included are interviews (ca. 1906-1907) with Southern farmers, professionals, government officials, and merchants on the economics of agriculture in the South. Also a...
Dates: 1902-1933

Douglas W. Rae papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1833
Abstract:

The Douglas W. Rae papers consist of interviews of members of the Howard family conducted from 1988 and 1989. The interviews document the social and economic experiences of an extended African American family in New Haven from the 1950s to the 1980s. The papers also include account books from Rae's tenure as chief administrative officer of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, from 1990 to 1991 which contain notes, reports, meeting minutes and daily memoranda.

Dates: 1988-1991