DescriptionThis is a report on a self-survey of the Housing Committee in the early 1950s. This report demonstrates the problems within the African American community in Trenton, New Jersey, including real...
DescriptionThis is a chart from a study done by Dr. Egerton Elliot Hall of the unequal distribution of employment across races, particularly concerning African Americans and white Americans throughout the 1910s...
DescriptionExcerpts from the testimony of Mrs. Lenora B. Willette presented at the Commission on Migratory Labor Hearings held in Trenton, New Jersey, on September 5th and 6th, 1950. Mrs. Willette testifies to...
DescriptionNewspaper article about the Klein family in New Brunswick. Martin Klein, a German immagrant, founded a hotel in New Brusnwick in 1863. At the time of this article, his sons, Martin and Peter, owned...
DescriptionMrs. Minnie Meltzer, who immigrated from Minsk, playing with her granddaughter Wendy, on a chicken farm near Farmingdale. Wendy is coming out of a barrel. The photo was taken circa 1950.