Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics

The Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics was a state government agency in West Virginia. Tyler Edward Hill was its first director. G. E. Ferguson (Gurnett Edinburgh Ferguson) (1888–1982) also served as its director.[1]

It published a report in 1922[2] and 1925.[3] In 1934 it published a Survey of Negro Housing in Charleston. In 1935 and 1938 it published Negro housing survey of Charleston, Keyston, Kimball, Wheeling and Williamson.[2] It produced a 1951-1952 Biennial Report.[4]

In 2015, the article "The Rise and Fall of West Virginia's Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics, 1921-1957" by Colin E. Reynolds was published in West Virginia History.[5]

See also

Angie Turner King

References

  1. ↑ "The Political Graveyard: African ancestry Politicians in West Virginia". politicalgraveyard.com.
  2. 1 2 "West Virginia. Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  3. ↑ Statistics, West Virginia Bureau of Negro Welfare and (June 13, 1925). "Report - Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics" – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "UMedia". umedia.lib.umn.edu.
  5. ↑ Reynolds, Colin E. (2015). "The Rise and Fall of West Virginia's Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics, 1921-1957". West Virginia History. 9 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1353/wvh.2015.0011. JSTOR 44862732 – via JSTOR.
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