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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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12 city situation. The social participation of Negro families in Burlington, as revealed through the indices in Figure 3, represents a picture that is more or less typical; a pattern of extremely limited participation in social organizations of the larger community, combined with rather heavy participation within special areas of social life of the Negro community. Small proportions of the family heads were member of social organizations of the larger community -- six percent were in the P.T.A. and eight percent in social welfare organizations, including the YM and YWCA. The largest proportions of the family heads either belonged to no organization of any kind (24 percent) or participated in lodge, fraternal, social and church clubs exclusively Negro in character (35 percent). Eight out of every ten family heads were affiliated with some church; 33 percent of these were Methodists and 42 percent Baptists. The largest representation of Negro family heads in organizations of the general community was in the area of labor unions; 14 percent of family heads reported memberships in this category of organization. It is useful to add two additional items on the character of the Burlington Negro family not yet given - the size of the family and the age of family heads (Tables V and VII). As probably might be expected from the general population figures showing the continuing loss of Negro population in Burlington, the Negro family is considerably smaller in size than the average both for all Negro in the nation in 1947 and for all families generally. There were in Burlington an average of 3.12 persons in the Negro family, as compared with an average of 3.63 persons for all families
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12 city situation. The social participation of Negro families in Burlington, as revealed through the indices in Figure 3, represents a picture that is more or less typical; a pattern of extremely limited participation in social organizations of the larger community, combined with rather heavy participation within special areas of social life of the Negro community. Small proportions of the family heads were member of social organizations of the larger community -- six percent were in the P.T.A. and eight percent in social welfare organizations, including the YM and YWCA. The largest proportions of the family heads either belonged to no organization of any kind (24 percent) or participated in lodge, fraternal, social and church clubs exclusively Negro in character (35 percent). Eight out of every ten family heads were affiliated with some church; 33 percent of these were Methodists and 42 percent Baptists. The largest representation of Negro family heads in organizations of the general community was in the area of labor unions; 14 percent of family heads reported memberships in this category of organization. It is useful to add two additional items on the character of the Burlington Negro family not yet given - the size of the family and the age of family heads (Tables V and VII). As probably might be expected from the general population figures showing the continuing loss of Negro population in Burlington, the Negro family is considerably smaller in size than the average both for all Negro in the nation in 1947 and for all families generally. There were in Burlington an average of 3.12 persons in the Negro family, as compared with an average of 3.63 persons for all families
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