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United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Investigation of
Public School Conditions. Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Public School Standards and
Conditions, and Juvenile Delinquency in the District of Columbia. 84th Congress, 2nd Session.
Washington: G.P.O., 1956.
The Committee on the District of Columbia concluded in 1956 that desegregation
causes discipline problems and decreased learning proficiency despite arguments to
the contrary.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A52
EMPLOYMENT
Baker Associates. Baker Handbook of Negro-owned Businesses. Washington, D.C.: Baker
Associates. 1947-1948.
Baker Associates created this business guidebook/phonebook, which highlights the
African American businesses, nonprofits, and churches in late 1940s Washington, D.C.
Items of interest in the book include page-length articles on Howard University, 12th
Street YMCA, Slowe and Carver Halls, Phi Beta Sigma, Miner Teacher’s College,
NAACP, Baker’s Dozen, and the Institute on Race Relations.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 B16 1947
Bracey, John. Black Workers and Organized Labor. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co.,
1971.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 6490.R2 B7
Byrand, Karl. Changing Race, Changing Place: Racial, Occupational, and Residential Patterns in
Shaw, Washington, D.C., 1880-1920. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 7288.92.U62 W37 1999
Cassell, Charles I. The Impact of African American Architects on the Cityscape of the Nation’s
Capital. Washington, s.n., 1994.
Architect Charles Cassell, son of the late architect Albert Cassell, gave a talk at the
Anacostia Museum in 1994, which outlined Washington, D.C. facilities designed by
African American architects practicing in the Nation’s Capital. This script of the talk
provides information about late 1800s and early 1900s African American architects.
Call Number: Special Collections Ephemera 69 ff
Cayton, Horace. Black Workers and the New Unions. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1939.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.8.C39