Black History Guide: Women |
There are countless records at the 威尼斯人娱乐场 and Records Administration (NARA) that relate specifically to Black women. Statistical information about women, like other minority groups, has been reported and tracked by the federal government throughout American history. Topics including work and home life, military and wartime experiences, artistic and cultural endeavors can be found below.
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Textual Records
Record Group 2 - Records of the National War Labor Board (World War I)
Case Files, 1918-1919
Extent: 92 linear feet, 6 linear inches
This series is arranged numerically by case number. Case file (#213) relates to a dispute involving Black railroad workers and is entitled 鈥淐olored Bagmen and Mail Porters of Philadelphia Terminal Division vs. Employers.鈥� The points at issue were a 20% increase in wages and discrimination against African American employees. Another case (#233) involved labor conditions in laundries in Little Rock, Arkansas, where 65% percent of the women employed were Black.
This series is indexed by the series General Index, 1918-1919
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Record Group 14 - Records of the United States Railroad Administration [USRA]
General Subject Files of the Women's Service Section, 1918-1920
Extent: 13 linear feet, 2 linear inches
This series is arranged numerically by file number. It contains information about the town or shop, division, railroad, occupation of the women employees, the number of women, the number of women under 21 years old, the number of Black women, date first employed, hours, wages, and union membership. There are also some narrative reports in this series that describe the type of facilities available to women, and, if segregated, the type of facilities available to Black women.
This series is indexed by the series Index to General Subject Files of the Women's Service Section
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Record Group 33 - Records of the Extension Service
Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, 1911-1966
Extent: 213 linear feet
This series is arranged chronologically in yearly segments, thereunder by district (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest), and thereunder by type of report (Men's and Women's). There are separate reports on "Negro Work" submitted by agricultural and home demonstration agents from 1916鈥�1964.
Some of these records have been digitized.
Record Group 46 - Records of the United States Senate
Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures, 1789-1975
Extent: 1 linear foot
This series is arranged chronologically. As Secretary of the Senate from 1882鈥�1893, Anson McCook compiled a collection of Presidential signatures consisting primarily of significant nomination messages. Records pertaining to Black history include:
- Petitions and Memorials Referred to the Committee on Slavery and Freedmen, ca. 03/04/1863 鈥� ca. 03/05/1865, a folder
- "To the Women of the Republic," Address from the Women's Loyal National League supporting the abolition of slavery, 01/25/1864 from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Vice President John Adams transmitting a petition from the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and an address of the people called Quakers on the subject of the abolition of the slave trade, 02/1790
Also included are messages from U. S. Presidents nominating certain people to cabinet positions, such as the Message of President Lyndon B. Johnson nominating Thurgood Marshall of New York to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 06/13/1967
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Some of the records in this series have been digitized.
Committee Papers, 1816-2011
Extent: 9,765 linear feet, 3 linear inches
This series consists of records of the Committee on the Judiciary, 1861鈥�1901, committee papers; petitions, memorials, and resolutions of State legislatures referred to the committee; minutes of committee meetings, 1865鈥�1907; legislative dockets, 1861鈥�1896 and executive dockets, 1865鈥�1901. Records relating to Black history include: the Petition of Colored Citizens of McMinn County, Tennessee, Praying for Protection of Civil Rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, 03/02/1874
, and the Petition to the Senate Requesting the Judiciary Committee Grant a Hearing, ca. 01/1893
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Some of the records in this series have been digitized.
Record Group 100 - Records of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]
Classified General Files [Division of Labor Standards], 1934-1937
Extent: 39 linear feet, 10 linear inches
This series is arranged according to a subject numeric classification scheme. It includes correspondence under the headings 鈥淣AACP,鈥� 鈥淣egro Labor Victory Committee,鈥� 鈥淐ommittee on Negro Organization,鈥� 鈥淐olored Trainmen,鈥� 鈥淣ational Association of Colored Women,鈥� and 鈥淪outhern Negro Council.鈥�
This series is indexed by the series Index to the Correspondence in the Classified General Files, 1934鈥�1937
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Photographic Materials
Record Group 54 - Records of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering [BPISAE]
Photographs of Fruits, Nuts and Vegetables, 1883-1941
Local Identifier: 54-F
Extent: 61 linear feet, 4 linear inches
This series is arranged alphabetically by subject. There are photographs depicting African Americans working in the cotton fields, Black farmers in their homes, tenant workers, and Black women and children.
Record Group 83 - Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics [BAE]
Photographs Relating to Farm Management Investigations, 1896-1921
Local Identifier: 83-F
This series is arranged alphabetically by subject, thereunder by state or more specific subject. Photographs depicting African Americans include: families in their homes, Black farmers, laborers, women and children, African Americans working in cotton and sugar fields.
Some of these records are digitized.
Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the BAE and Predecessor Agencies, ca. 1922-ca. 1947
Local Identifier: 83-G
This series is arranged by Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) division and thereunder by subject. Photographs depicting African Americans are scattered throughout the series. The photographs depict Black farmers, African Americans participating in community activities and agricultural studies, tenant workers, Black laborers, and African American families in their homes.
Some of the records in this series are digitized.
Motion Pictures
Record Group 33 - Records of the Extension Service
Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers, 1921-1921
This film is about African American and White agents of the Extension Service (Department of Agriculture) who visit Black farmers in the South instructing them in methods of eliminating boll weevils; inoculating hogs against cholera; and pruning and spraying fruit trees.