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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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13 in the U.S. a nd one of 4.24 persons for all nonwhite families in the U.S. in 1947. The small size of the Negro family in Burlington is probably related also to the fact that their heads are older, on the average, than both Negro heads in 1940 and all heads in the nation at large, as shown in census figures. The median age of Negro family heads in Burlington was found to be 47.3 years, as compared with 42.9 years for Negro Heads and (?) years for all heads in the country in 1940. Adjustment of the Negro Family. Probably the most crucial aspect of the Negro family in Burlington, for the central purpose of the self-survey of race relations, concerns the kind of adjustment made to general civic and social life of the community. This has been partly shown in ma(?) of the objective characteristics of the Negro family of the city, as revealed through the proceeding discussion of economic, social and family status. An additional way of discovering the problems of adjustment facing the Negro family is in terms of the attitudes expressed by these families toward certain aspects of community life. In the interview coverage of these families, subjects were therefore asked to indicate the kinds of difficulties they had experienced, if any, in their relationships with the schools, their neighborhood, the police, commercial recreational agencies, and other agencies through which they are associated with the general life of the city. The attitudes and sentiments revealed through this medium thus give a subjective appraisal on the part of the Negro family of the problems confronted in adjusting to the general life of the community. Therefore, given the extremely marginal economic
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13 in the U.S. a nd one of 4.24 persons for all nonwhite families in the U.S. in 1947. The small size of the Negro family in Burlington is probably related also to the fact that their heads are older, on the average, than both Negro heads in 1940 and all heads in the nation at large, as shown in census figures. The median age of Negro family heads in Burlington was found to be 47.3 years, as compared with 42.9 years for Negro Heads and (?) years for all heads in the country in 1940. Adjustment of the Negro Family. Probably the most crucial aspect of the Negro family in Burlington, for the central purpose of the self-survey of race relations, concerns the kind of adjustment made to general civic and social life of the community. This has been partly shown in ma(?) of the objective characteristics of the Negro family of the city, as revealed through the proceeding discussion of economic, social and family status. An additional way of discovering the problems of adjustment facing the Negro family is in terms of the attitudes expressed by these families toward certain aspects of community life. In the interview coverage of these families, subjects were therefore asked to indicate the kinds of difficulties they had experienced, if any, in their relationships with the schools, their neighborhood, the police, commercial recreational agencies, and other agencies through which they are associated with the general life of the city. The attitudes and sentiments revealed through this medium thus give a subjective appraisal on the part of the Negro family of the problems confronted in adjusting to the general life of the community. Therefore, given the extremely marginal economic
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