The Negro in West Virginia. Report of T. Edward Hill, Director Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics of the State of West Virginia to Governor Ephraim F. Morgan, 1921-1922.

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Snapshot of Black lives in West Virginia in 1921–1922. Includes statistics and reports on population, agriculture, labor and industry, inter-racial relations, health, education, home ownership, mining, law and the courts—including an anti-lynching law, churches, charitable institutions, etc. Four appendices discuss Black West Virginians’ activities during the First World War, both military and civilian, including a State Council of Defense resolution to oppose the showing of the controversial race-baiting film, The Birth of a Nation.

Price: $35.00