AG Rice to RM Reese

Title

AG Rice to RM Reese

Creator

Rice, A. G.

Identifier

DA071614_4a-b

Date

1914 July 16

Description

List of African-American employees in the USDA Bureau of Soils.

Source

US National Archives and Records Administration 130/68/3/00 box #3 entry #5 "Negroes" folder

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

African-Americans--segregation

Contributor

Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock

Language

English

Provenance

Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.

Text

Mr. R. M. Reese,
Chief Clerk,
Department of Agriculture.

Dear Sir:

With reference to your memorandum of the 14th instant, I beg to enclose herewith a list of colored employees now in this Bureau, together with the position held by each and the salary received by them. Those named are all in the immediate Bureau as we employ no colored help in the field.

Very truly yours,
A G Rice
Chief Clerk.

Colored Employees in the BUREAU OF SOILS.

Name, Position, Salary

1. Sanders M. Johnson, Laboratory Helper, $840.00
2. Benjamin A. Judkins, Laboratory Helper, $840.00
3. Willis Fields, Unskilled Laborer, $600.00
4. Eugene A. Williams, Unskilled Laborer, $600.00
5. Harry Jones, Unskilled Laborer, $480.00
6. William R. Smith, Unskilled Laborer, $480.00
7. Robert Wess, Unskilled Laborer, $480.00
8. W. T. Thomas, Laborer, $300.00

Original Format

Census

To

Reese, Robert Miller

Files

DA071614_4a.pdf
DA071614_4b.pdf

Citation

Rice, A. G., “AG Rice to RM Reese,” 1914 July 16, DA071614_4a-b, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.