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William Adam Armwood Sr. (1879–1944) was a civil servant, school princupal, and community leader in the United States. He was the supervisor of the Department of Labor's Florida Division of Negro Economics during World War I (1918).
He was the son of Levin Armwood and Margaret Holloman Armwood who lived in Seffner, Florida. Blanche Armwood was one of his siblings.[1] He and his father opened the Gem Drugstore on Central Avenue in Tampa.[2]
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Headed Department of Labor's Bureau Negro Economics in Florida.[3]
He wrote a letter advocating for a carpentry school funded by union members.[4] He was a carpentry instructor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1910.[5] He worked at Brewer Normal School in South Carolina.[6]
Florida Division of Negro Economics (DNE) supervisor, lawyer, civil rights organizer in timber industry (turpentine) [7][8] Was this him or his son? owned a drugstore?
Related to Blanche Armwood?
W. A. Armwood Jr.? Walter Armwood III died in 2009
"W. A. Armwood, of Tampa, F la., a graduate of the State college, who had been a successfu ca rpenter and contractor and at that time was principal of thel.."[9]
"W. A. Armwood , of Tampa , Fla . , a graduate of the State college , who had been a successful carpenter and contractor and at that time was principal of the colored public school at Tampa and successfully conducting a drug business" was chosen as supervisor of Negro evonomics for Florida.[10]
He documented labor conditions.[11] The University of South Florida has diary entries he wrote, part of its collection of Armwood Family Papers.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Halderman, Keith (1996). "Blanche Armwood of Tampa and the Strategy of Interracial Cooperation". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 74 (3): 287–303. JSTOR 30148848 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Collection: Armwood Family papers | USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections ArchivesSpace". archives.lib.usf.edu.
- ^ "Manufacturers' Record". July 1, 1919 – via Google Books.
- ^ McGuire, Peter James; Duffy, Frank (July 1, 1908). "Carpenter". United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. – via Google Books.
- ^ Stations, United States Office of Experiment (July 1, 1910). "Bulletin" – via Google Books.
- ^ Education, United States Bureau of (July 1, 1906). "Bulletin - Bureau of Education". Bureau of Education – via Google Books.
- ^ Lawrie, Paul R. D. (April 3, 2018). Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-5140-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ Wilson, Francille Rusan (July 1, 2006). The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2550-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Full text of General Records of the Department of Labor, Record Group 174 : The Negro at Work During the World War and During Reconstruction | FRASER | St. Louis Fed". fraser.stlouisfed.org.
- ^ Economics, United States Department of Labor Division of Negro (July 1, 1921). The Negro at Work During the World War and During Reconstruction: Statistics, Problems, and Policies Relating to the Greater Inclusion of Negro Wage Earners in American Industry and Agriculture. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-8371-1909-0 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Johnson, James Weldon (July 1, 1995). The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: The New York Age editorials (1914-1923). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507644-8 – via Google Books.
- ^ Payne, Charles M.; Green, Adam (August 1, 2003). Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-6702-3 – via Google Books.