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Creator
Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945
Call number
Sc MG 684
Physical description
0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English
Preferred Citation
[Item], Lyonel C. Florant papers, Sc MG 684, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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Lyonel C. Florant, an African American economist, was employed by the Carnegie Corporation's "Study of the Negro in America" project. Florant authored several documents for the project, and he, along with others, completed the report, "Negro Population Movements, 1860 to 1940: In Relation to Social and Economic Factors". The Lyonel C. Florant papers consist of reports and some research files Florant prepared and gathered primarily regarding African American migration and population studies across the country, mostly for the Negro in America study.

Biographical/historical information

Lyonel C. Florant, an African American economist, earned his Master's degree from Columbia University and was employed by the Carnegie Corporation's "Study of the Negro in America" project. The project, led by social scientist Gunnar Myrdal, was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to prepare an evaluation on the social, economic, and political aspects of life in the African American community. Florant authored several documents for the project, and he, Samuel A. Stouffer, and others completed the report, "Negro Population Movements, 1860 to 1940: In Relation to Social and Economic Factors".

Scope and arrangement

The Lyonel C. Florant Papers consist of reports and some research files that Florant prepared and gathered primarily regarding African American migration and population studies across the country, mostly for the Negro in America study. Other investigators represented in this collection include Samuel A. Stouffer, V. B. Stanbery, Aubrey Clyde Robinson, Glenore Fisk Horne, and Frank Lorimer. The collection contains carbon copies of reports and fragments of the typescript of "Negro Migration 1860-1940", as well as state planning board studies. Among the manuscripts are studies of migrant workers in general and in Florida, and census data on migration. There are also reports about student housing in Newport News, Virginia (1941).

Of interest are Gunnar Myrdal's reports of interviews he conducted with sociologist Horace Cayton; they interviewed union organizer J. Levirt Kelly and Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi (1940). Senator Bilbo, an ultraconservative southern Democrat, was known for his racism and sponsorship of a bill in Congress for the Voluntary Repatriation of American Negroes to Africa.

The Lyonel C. Florant papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift of Lester Florant, 1999.

Processing information

Processed by P. Williams, 2001, and Janice Quinter, 2010.

Related Material

Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, Sc MG 25, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Ralph Bunche papers, Sc MG 290, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
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