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JOHNSON, Charles S., et al. The Negro War Worker in San Francisco. San Francisco: Y.W.C.A., May 1944.
Tall 8vo. Original printed wrappers (extremities sunned, some staining near spine, ink notations and ownership signature on covers).
FIRST EDITION of this scarce sociological study focusing on the influx of migrants to California during WWII, specifically the 60,000 who were Black, doubling the “Negro population” of cities like San Francisco and Oakland almost overnight.