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Early Department of Labor Black Studies

All of these studies were published in Bulletins of the U.S. Department of Labor.

"Conditions of the Negro in Various Cities," Bulletin 10 (May 1897), pp. 257-369.

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social Study," Bulletin 14 (January 1898), pp.1-38.

______, "The Negro in the Black Belt: Some Social Sketches," Bulletin 22 (May 1899), pp. 401-17.

William Taylor Thom, "The Negroes of Sandy Spring, Maryland: A Social Study," Bulletin 32 (January 1901), pp. 43-102.

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Negro Landholder of Georgia," Bulletin 35 (July 1901), pp. 647-777.

William Taylor Thom, "The Negroes of Litwal­ton, Virginia: A Social Study of the 'Oyster Negro'," Bulletin 37 (November 1901), pp. 1115-70.

J. Bradford Laws, "The Negroes of Cinclare Central Factory and Calumet Plantation, Louisiana," Bulletin 38 (January 1902), pp. 95-120.

William Taylor Thom, "The True Reformers," Bulletin 41 (July 1902), pp. 807-14.

Richard R. Wright, Jr., "The Negroes of Xenia, Ohio: A Social Study," Bulletin 48 of the U.S. Bureau of Labor (September 1903), pp. 1006-44.

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