The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic ProgressHaynes, George Edmund
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The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress
Haynes, George Edmund
African American businesspeople; African Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York; African Americans -- History
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INDEX
Assembly districts, Negroes in, 52-53
Back-to-the-land movement, 33
Business establishments, nature of, 98
Classified, 99
Floor space occupied by, 106
Gross receipts of, 113-114
Length of residence in New York of proprietors of, 101
Number of employees in, 105
Ownership of, 100
Permanence of location of, 118-119
Table of floor space of, 107
Table of gross receipts of, 115
City growth, causes of, 13
Foot-note on, 43-44
Colonial General Assembly, laws passed by, 94-95
Colored American (newspaper), 67, 96
Crime in cities, 39-41
Death-rates of whites and Negroes, 34-37
Changes in Richmond, Va., 37-38
Diagrams:
I. Increase of whites and Negroes in cities, 16
II. Death-rates in cities, 36
III. Distribution of Negro population in Harlem, 50
IV. Distribution of Negro population in "San Juan Hill" district, 51
Freedmen, as shiphands, 66
Property escheated, 95
Health of Negroes in cities, 34-38
Industrial centers, migration of Negroes to, 19-25
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