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(1944) [MARC] Author: Gunnar Myrdal
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129^1 An American Dilemma
where else. (Sterner and Associates, of, cit,, p. i86. Data based on Peyton Stapp, Urban
Housing; A Summary of Real Proferty Inventories Conducted as Work Projects
y
1934^36, Works Progress Administration [1938], fassim,)
Sterner and Associates, of, cit,y pp. 182-183. Data based on U.S. Public Health
Service, The National Health Surveyy i93S’‘3^y Sickness and Medical Care Series,
Bulletin No. 5 (1939), fassim.
The proportion of families having living quarters equipped with running hot and
cold water, inside flush toilet, and electric lights, for Atlanta Negro families in the
income group $1,000-$ 1,249 only 23 per cent. For white families in the same
income class it was 58 per cent. The corresponding figure for white families having an
income of $750-$999 was 51 per cent; not until one comes to the lowest income group
listed for the white population ($500-$749) does one find a figure (24 per cent) on
about the same level as that quoted for Negro families in the income group $1,000-
$1,249. same token, one has to go as high up on the Negro income scale as to
the class $1,7 50-$ 1,999 in order to find a percentage (57 per cent) about as high as
that for white families in the income group $1,000-$ 1,249. (U.S. Department of
Labor, Bulletin No. 648, Vol. i, of, cit,y p. 75.)
Sterner and Associates, of, cit,y Table 79.
In Augusta, Georgia, 8 per cent of the Negro and 3 per cent of the white house-
holds were living in dwelling units where there were more than two persons per room.
These crowded households included 1 5 and 6 per cent, respectively, of the population.
In all probability they included an even larger proportion of all minor children. (lbid,y
p. 194.)
The statement that children are more crowded than are adults is based on the fact
that they, to a greater extent, belong to large families. It is corroborated by Swedish
experiences. (Myrdal, of, cit,, p. 246.) The Real Property Inventories, however, do
not contain any data on the number of children in crowded households. The important
point about children as the main sufferers of poor housing conditions seems to have
been overlooked in American housing statistics.
U.S. Department of Labor, Bulletin No. 648, Vol. i, of, cit,y p. 26; U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics, Consumer Purchases Study, Urban
and Village Series, Family Exfenditures for Housing and Household Oforation. Five
Regions, Miscellaneous Publication No. 432 (1941), p. 86.
Sterner and Associates, of, cit,, p. 99.
Ibid,, p. 197.
Chapter 17. The Mechanics of Economic Discrimination as a Practical Problem
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The following experiences of the author may serve as illustrations:
A Negro lad in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had successfully prepared himself in the
excellent vocational school of this Midwestern city to become an electrician. As he had
been told before he started to take these courses, he encountered difficulties Iq getting
apprenticeship training and employment, in spite of the best personal recommendations
and in spite of assistance from the local Urban League. Most of the contractors declared
that they themselves had nothing against engaging him. They were not prejudiced, they

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