Research Catalog

Title

Lyonel C. Florant papers, 1930-ca. 1945.

Author

Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.
• Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960.
• Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945.

Description

.6 linear ft. (1 archival box, 1/2 archival box)

Summary

• The Lyonel C. Florant Papers consist of reports and some research files Florant prepared and gathered primarily regarding African American migration and population studies across the country, mostly for the Negro in America study. Other investigators represented in this collection include Samuel A. Stouffer, V. B. Stanbery, Aubrey Clyde Robinson, Glenore Fisk Horne, and Frank Lorimer. The collection contains carbon copies of reports and fragments of the typescript of "Negro Migration 1860-1940," as well as state planning board studies. Among the manuscripts is a study of migrant workers in general and in Florida, specifically, and census data on migration. There are also reports about student housing in Newport News, Virginia (1941)
• Of interest are Gunnar Myrdal's reports of interviews he conducted together with sociologist Horace Cayton of union organizer J. Levirt Kelly, and one of Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi (1940). Senator Bilbo, an ultraconservative southern Democrat, was known for his racism and sponsorship of a bill in Congress for the Voluntary Repatriation of American Negroes to Africa.

Subjects

• Black author
• Cayton, Horace R (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970
• African Americans > Employment > Virginia
• Florant, Lyonel C (Lyonel Charles), -1945
• Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century
• African Americans > Segregation
• African Americans > Population
• Sociology > United States
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• African Americans > Housing > Virginia
• United States > Migration
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• African Americans > Statistics, Vital
• Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877-1947
• Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987
• Demographic transition > United States
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Study of the Negro in America (Project)
• Kelly, J. Levirt, 1883-
• United States > Race relations > Research
• United States > Social conditions

Source (note)

• Lester Florant

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Biography (note)

• Lyonel C. Florant, an African-American economist, earned his Master's degree from Columbia University and was employed by the Carnegie Corporation's "Study of the Negro in America" project. The project, led by social scientist Gunnar Myrdal, was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to prepare an evaluation on the social, economic, and political aspects of life in the African-American community. Florant authored several documents for the project, and he, Samuel A. Stouffer and others completed the report, "Negro Population Movements, 1860 to 1940: In Relation to Social and Economic Factors."

OCLC

660081124

Author

Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945.

Title

Lyonel C. Florant papers, 1930-ca. 1945.

Biography

Lyonel C. Florant, an African-American economist, earned his Master's degree from Columbia University and was employed by the Carnegie Corporation's "Study of the Negro in America" project. The project, led by social scientist Gunnar Myrdal, was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to prepare an evaluation on the social, economic, and political aspects of life in the African-American community. Florant authored several documents for the project, and he, Samuel A. Stouffer and others completed the report, "Negro Population Movements, 1860 to 1940: In Relation to Social and Economic Factors."

Location of Other Archival Materials

Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection; Ralph J. Bunche papers; Manuscripts of "An American Dilemma" in the Literary and Scholarship Manuscripts Collection and Bernard Stern/Alain Locke Collection Also located at; Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.

Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960.

Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945. Negro population movements, 1860 to 1940, in relation to social and economic factors.