Negros in Public Service Occupations: New Jersey, Both Sexes 1930, Statistics from The Negro Wage Earner of New Jersey.

This is a chart from a study done by Dr. Egerton Elliot Hall of the unequal distribution of employment across races, particularly concerning African Americans and white Americans throughout the 1910s through the early 1930s within New Jersey. During this time many African American migrants from Southern states were moving to the New Jersey area. Through this study Hall explores the effects of the unequal distribution of employment on various aspects of the lives of African Americans such as their health and education. This particular chart shows the number of African AMericans in various public service occupations in the 1930s versus the total amount of employees within each of those occupations. The public service occupations include the following: fireman, guard, marshal, state and city inspector, policeman, and soldier. The numbers of African Americans fulfilling most of the public service occupations were extremely low compared to the total number of employees that fulfilled these positions. The information for this chart was obtained from the Census of Occupations of the United States Bureau of the Census