Unsung Heroes, the Black Boy of Atlanta, "Negroes in Domestic Service in the United States": The Black Boy of Atlanta ; Negroes in Domestic Service in ...

by Elizabeth Ross Haynes, Francille Rusan Wilson (Introduction)

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.

597 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1996

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[Mills College Library]

920.00929 H4243 1997