Box U.01

Coverage on the decrease of unemployed persons in Baltimore.

Includes 1931-1935 AFRO photos of Black men at unemployment shelters and soup and bread lines due to the Depression.

Includes June 1980 photographs when Baltimore ranked second highest in unemployment nationwide. Corresponding clipping reads "Homeless, jobless, hopeless." Also includes photographs by Benjamin Murphy Phillips IV and Roman Hankewycz.

Includes wire photographs from unemployment and recession protests in Washington, D.C. and in Trenton, N.J.

State of Maryland Unemployment Compensation Law including Amendments of 1953.

The annual report of the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board.

Includes AFRO staff photo by Robert Matthews.

Includes 1949 clipping on the 37,000 domestic workers in Baltimore hit the hardest by unemployment with 90% of them being Black women.