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Essay, A Demographic Impact of Basic Magnesium on Southern Nevada, by Roosevelt Fitzgerald, May 12, 1982

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Essay by Roosevelt Fitzgerald focusing on demographic changes in southern Nevada from 1940-1945 and the war industry's effect on black employment, particularly the impact of Basic Magnesium, dated 1982.W P A DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF BASIC MAGNESIUM ON SOUTHERN NEVADA SUBMITTED BY ROOSEVELT FITZGERALD DIRECTOR OF ETHNIC STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS MAY 12, 1982 A DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF BASIC MAGNESIUM ON SOUTHERN NEVADA The Problem In 1938 Almon E. Parkins wrote a very important economic-geographic hsitory of the South.1 It was considered by some to be a most important treatment of that area. In looking through its index there is only one reference to black residents of the South. That one reference mirrored the extent of concern on the subject of black people found in so many other such books. It is significant to the study of black people to note what that single reference had to say about the millions of Southern Blacks and their impact on the area: The tropical-bred Negroe, immune to the diseases of wet, hot climates, was a godsend to Southern rice growers on the low, swampy, outer margins of the coastal plain. The climate was so "deadly" there that all whites who
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