Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929"This collection has a dual focus: migration and labor. The federal government's concern for efficient production and peaceful labor relations, along with the investigatory zeal of the progressives in the Wilson administration, generated a multitude of surveys, reports, and case files which, taken together, enable us to piece together the dynamics of migration and the transformation of black life that it entailed. Records relate to agricultural labor, industrial work, unionism, housing, race relations, returning veterans and their search for employment, and the process of migration from the South to the North."