Historical Statistics of Black America
Contributors: Carrell Horton (Editor)
Publisher: Gale Group
Published: October 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 2244
ISBN-13: 9780810385429
Subjects: Black studies; Population & demography; Reference works; Social history; Social research & statistics; History - General History; Directories; Reference; North America; African American Studies - History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; African Americans; History; Statistics
Notes: Two Volume Set
Table of contents: title: Agriculture. Agricultural training -- Crops / livestock / animals -- Extension work and workers -- Farms and farmers -- Business and economics. Advertising agencies -- Banks, financial institutions , finances -- Business owners and operators -- Insurance companies -- Leading businesses --Crime, law enforcement, and legal justice. Crime -- Juvenile delinquents and delinquency -- Law enforcement -- Legal justice -- Lynching -- Education. Achievements and milestones -- Adult education -- Characteristics -- County training schools -- Dropouts -- Educational attainment -- enrollment -- Higher education -- Illiteracy -- Libraries and librarians -- Professional education -- School characteristics -- Support for schools -- Vocational education -- Family. Characteristics -- Children -- Income / earnings  -- Lifestyles and conveniences -- Poverty -- Support services -- Health, disabilities, and health care. Disabilities -- Drug abuse -- Facilities -- Health care -- Health support services -- Illness and disease -- Income / earnings -- Mental health -- Nutrition -- Housing . Home ownership -- Home value -- Household characteristics -- Living quarters -- Occupied housing -- Public housing projects -- Rural housing -- Tenure -- War housing -- Income, spending and wealth. Income / earnings -- Money earned -- Wealth -- Labor and employment. Employees and employment -- Employment and training -- Federal security agencies -- Federal works agencies -- Labor force -- Labor unions -- Occupations -- Placement --Un employment -- War and non-war industries --; title: v. 2. Media. Geographic divisions -- News agencies -- Print media -- Military and military affairs. Military crime -- The military services -- Personnel characteristics -- Selective service -- Veterans -- Wartime honors -- Wartime service -- Miscellany. Attitudes, values, and behavior -- Creative works -- People in institutions -- Philanthropy -- Progress -- Purposeful organizations -- Social services -- Politics and elections. Conventions -- Elected and appointed officials -- Voters and voting -- Population. Age composition -- Black belt -- Black towns and settlements -- Black and mulatto population -- Distribution by gender -- Free blacks -- Geographical areas : cities / urban and rural -- Geographical areas : colonies -- Geographical areas : counties -- Geographical areas : sections, divisions, states -- Households -- Marital status -- Migration -- Native and foreign born population -- Property holdings and values -- Racial composition -- Size of the population -- Women and children -- Professions. Dentistry -- Law -- Medicine -- Mixed professions -- Nursing -- Opportunities for professionals -- Religion. Associations and organizations -- Church value -- Churches -- Denominations -- Periodicals and publications -- Sunday schools -- Temperance -- Slavery and the slave trade. Families -- Growth and size -- Population -- Private families -- Protests -- Slave labor -- Slave prices -- Slave trade -- Slaves escaped -- Taxable persons -- Sports and leisure. Amateur sports -- College sports -- Leisure -- Olympic sports -- Professional sports --  vital statistics. Births -- Deaths -- Fertility -- Fetal and infant deaths -- Life expectancy -- Marital status.