“THE NEGRO AND THE WAR”: REPORTS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
Five different reports from the Norfolk Journal and Guide, and one from the New York Call, arranged chronologically from March to September of 1917. These documents deal primarily with race issues within the labor force, detailing especially union organization and challenges that faced colored unions.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5054
“EXPERIENCES OF A ‘HIRED GIRL’” AN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY DOMESTIC WORKER SPEAKS OUT
An anonymous African American domestic worker argues that there are insufficient wages, unreasonable hours, and intrusive supervision in the field of domestic service. Published in 1912 in Outlook magazine.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5323/
“SADIE’S SERVANT ROOM BLUES”: 1920S DOMESTIC WORK IN SONG
The struggles of domestic workers were recorded in songs such as this one, by Hattie Burleson in 1928. The song criticizes the long hours, low pay, and lack of privacy of domestic work.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/20
STATE OF NEW JERSEY MANUAL TRAINING & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH
A scanned advertisement page from a 1919 issue of The Crisis that describes various courses for “colored youth” in the Manual Training and Industrial School’s fall term.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1145.htm
OCCUPATIONS. NEGROES PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS, 1916-1917
A table that charts the various types of occupations held by African Americans in industrial Pittsburgh in 1916-1917, in terms of number and “per cent doing unskilled labor. From The Negro Yearbook.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1109.htm
OCCUPATIONS OF NEGRO WOMEN IN NEW YORK
A table that charts the various trades in which African American women worked in New York. From The Negro Yearbook.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1110.htm