Author: Massachusetts. Public Service Commission
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1320

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First report includes the 45th Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners.

Author: William Seraile
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823241629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles of the women who organized it nearly 200 years ago. The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support would come from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors. While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee. More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years. Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose.

Author: United States. Federal Reserve Board
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Author: American Society for Testing Materials
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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Author: Nancy Joan Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Monograph on the historical impact of the national level urban area league, a Black interest group, on race relations in the USA from 1910 to 1940 - examines the league's efforts to open employment opportunities for blacks and to ease their social adjustment to urban life following rural migration. Annotated bibliography pp. 311 to 315, references and statistical tables.

Author: Robert F. Himmelberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815314066
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 986

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Author: Foreign Policy Association
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Category : Blockade
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Foreign Policy Association
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Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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