Unsung heroes
Subtitle: The Black boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in domestic service in the United States
By: Elizabeth Ross Haynes ; introduction by Francille Rusan Wilson.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
Subjects: Wright, Richard Robert, 1855-1947; African Americans -- Biography; Women domestics -- Washington (D.C.) -- Economic conditions; African American college presidents -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography; College presidents -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography; African American bankers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Unsung heroes ; The Black boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in domestic service in the United States; Black boy of Atlanta.; Negroes in domestic service in the United States.
Description: The Black Boy of Atlanta (1952), also written for young readers, is Ross Haynes's biography of Major Richard R. Wright, the first president of the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth and of the Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company. "Negroes in Domestic Service in the United States," published in The Journal of Negro History in 1923, was the subject of Ross Haynes's M.A. thesis for her degree in sociology from Columbia University.

It was the first comprehensive study of the largest segment of black nonfarm workers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.