Negro, Black and African-American Census Reports: 1940

Sixteenth Census - 1940

Overview - 1940 Census
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Index of Questions
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Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States: according to "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
United States. (1942). Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940: Population. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
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Census of Population and Housing
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Characteristics of the nonwhite population by race.
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Differential fertility, 1940 and 1910.
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Estimated population of the United States by age, color, and sex: 1945 and 1944. 4 pages
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The Negro and the 1940 census 4 pages
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The Negro in the United States: 1949. 767 pages
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Population Special Reports-1940's:
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940: [Negro statistics].
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United States., & McKenney, N. D. R. (1979). The social and economic status of the Black population in the United States: An historical view, 1790-1978. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports, Special Studies, Series P-23, No. 80. 270 pages.
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Statistical Abstract

Annual compendium of data and statistics on finance, commerce, public lands, immigration, shipping, the Postal Service, population, railroads, education, agriculture and prices.

1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944-45 - 1946 - 1947 - 1948 - 1949

Other Reports

Convention dates of Negro organizations: 1940. Negro Statistical Bulletin No. 2. 25 pages
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Convention dates of Negro organizations: 1943. Negro Statistical Bulletin, No. 2

Employment and Income of Negro Workers, 1940-52. Mary S. Bedell. 6 pages
BLS

The Great Migration, 1910 to 1970 (Infographic)
Census Bureau

The Great Migration of Afro-Americans, 1915-40 1987. 3 pages.
BLS

A Half-Century of Learning: Historical Statistics on Educational Attainment in the United States, 1940 to 2000. Report number PHC-T-41
Census Bureau

Negro newspapers and periodicals in the United States: 1940. Negro statistical bulletin: no. 1, May 1941. 22 pages.
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Negro Newspapers and periodicals in the United States, 1943. Negro statistical bulletin, No. 1, 1943.
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Negro newspapers and periodicals in the United States: 1945. Negro statistical bulletin, No. 1, 1946.

Negro Aviators, Negro statistical bulletin. Negro statistics bulletin, No. 3, 1940.
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Negro public schools in states maintaining segregated school systems, 1948-49 / Washington, D.C. : Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, 1951. also by David T. Blose. 21 pages.
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Negro Women War Workers: Women's Bureau Bulletin No. 205. 1945. 28 pages.
BLS

Postwar education of Negroes; educational implications of army data and experiences of Negro-veterans and war workers. Washington, D.C., Federal security agency, U. S. Office of education, 1945. 71 pages.
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Prisoners executed. 1942-1945: Population. Series PN.

Prisoners in state and federal prisons and reformatories / Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 1936-1941
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Prisoners in state and federal prisons and reformatories / Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 1942-1946
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Statistics of education of Negroes, 1945-46. Washington, D.C. : Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, 1948. David T. Blose. 6 pages.
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Statistics of the education of Negroes : a decade of progress Washington, D.C. : Federal Security Agency, U.S. Office of Education, 1943, also by David T. Blose and Ambrose Caliver. 2 pages.
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