Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Tag Archives: Florida

Correspondence File, Ha, 1979-1981

Jimmy Carter Library file folder: United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Patricia Roberts Harris correspondence with Jimmy Carter on race riots and aftermath in Miami, Florida, 1980

Box 6–Civil Rights: St. Augustine, Florida, 1965

Records from the Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson White House Central Files on Civil Rights: St. Augustine, Florida, Selected Office Files Related to Civil Rights–Lee C. White, 1965, 1965

Casefile 50-18-12. 1936-1939. 112pp.

National Archives Folder: Peonage casefile involving turpentine workers, including NAACP, Workers Defense League, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and American Federation of Labor interest in case, 1936-1939, 1936-1939

This Business of Lynching

Text of pamphlet that provides an overview of the nationwide lynching problem, with listings by state, 1935

Document 126: January 2, 1936 Memorandum with attachments

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Provides statement on issues of concern to African Americans, including lynching problem; discrimination in relief and public works, the postal service, and civil service; white-only primaries; and discrimination in the army and navy, 1936

Compendium of enumeration of inhabitants and statistics of U.S., as obtained at Department of State, from returns of 6th Census, by counties and principal towns, exhibiting population, wealth, and resources of the country; with tables of apportionment, showing, 1st: Number of representatives, as fixed by Constitution before 1st enumeration, and number prescribed according to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Census; also number of representatives each State will be entitled to according to 6th Census, with fractions over, commencing at ratio of 55,000, and ascending by 500s to 70,000, to which is added abstract of each preceding census [with detailed data on population, education, employment, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing, by county, with some data shown by selected city; and congressional apportionment; by State]

1841 Census, 1841

Statistical view of U.S., embracing its territory, population – white, free colored, and slave – moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue; detailed statistics of cities, towns and counties; being compendium of 7th Census, to which are added results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon schedules and other official sources of information [with data on population characteristics; manufacturing establishments, operations, and finances; Government finances; foreign trade; agricultural indicators; education; religion; and transportation; with some detail for States, cities, counties, and foreign countries, 1850 and trends]

1850 Census, 1854