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These are listed as "Releases." The list appears in Negro Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States, 1938. 

  • N-6 Professional Services in Which Negroes Are Chiefly Engaged. 1930.
  • N-7 Negro Home-Owners Increased 126,991 During Ten Years
  • N-8 Significant Decline of Negro Illiteracy
  • N-10 Non-farm Homes Owned by Negro Families
  • N-34 Negro Population of Fifty Cities: 1880 to 1930
  • N-35 Interstate Migration of Negroes to Large Cities
  • N-36 Average Number of Negroes to Each Negro Engaged in the Principal Professional Occupations: 1930
  • N-37 Colored Farm Owners Increased and Tenants Decreased in the South, 1930 to 1935
  • N-38 Negro Population of the United States by Sections, Divisions and States: 1980 to 1930
  • N-39 Percent Illiteracy of Texas Negro Population 10 Years Old and Over by Counties: 1930, 1920, 1910
  • N-44 Negro Births and Persons in Attendance: 1935
  • N-45 Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935, 1929
  • N-46 Negro Proprietorships, Service Establishments: 1935
  • N-47 New York City - Chicago - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-48 Number of Negro Births and Deaths: 1936, 1935, 1934, 1933
  • N-49 Distribution of Hotels Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-50 Philadelphia - Baltimore - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-51 Washington, D.C. - New Orleans - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-52 Birmingham, Ala. - Detroit, Mich. - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-53 Memphis, Tenn. - St. Louis, Mo. - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-54 Cleveland, Ohio - Atlanta, Ga. - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-55 Houston, Tex. - Pittsburgh, Pa. - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935
  • N-56 Richmond, Va. - Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935

Census Bureau Bulletins

372. United States. Abstract – State of birth of native population
384. United States. Abstract -- Tenure, mortgage indebtedness, color and nativity of farmer, and size of farms by States

Other Publications

Mental defectives and epileptics in institutions: 1926-1937. Statistics of admissions and discharges of mental defectives, and epileptics in state, city and private institutions, 1931-1939. 

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

Prisoners executed. 1942-1945: Population. Series PN.

Black Children in America (CB/94-1)

Patients in hospitals for mental disease: 1926-1937. 

Hotels Operated by Negroes September 1938 (Bulletin No. 17)