Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington requesting information have tripled, to 2,300 a week; applications for permits to use the research facilities have jumped by 40%, to 560 a week. Most blacks, however, may not be able to trace their family trees before the Civil War. One reason: until 1870 the federal census listed most blacks by age and sex but not by name. Free blacks were an exception, but they were not very numerous. Some won their freedom through service in the Revolutionary War; nobody knows the precise number, but there were at least 5,000 who fought with the patriots...
With 150 million Americans living in cities of 50,000 or more, the U.S. is still very much an urban nation. But the Census Bureau finds that the majority of the population has shifted toward the South and West for sun and casual living, and also for a private corner of the space that remains. All over the country, demographers have noted, the urge is to go small-out of central cities to suburbs, out of suburbs to smaller towns...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Ill., like many middle-class suburbs of many turbulent U.S. cities, has a zoning law that forbids apartment buildings or any other form of multifamily housing in many parts of the village. Not entirely coincidentally, the 1970 census showed that the town contained 64,857 whites and 27 blacks...
...salaries of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House from $65,600 to $80,000, the majority and minority leaders in both houses of Congress from $52,000 to $65,000. The lowest executive-level jobs, including the Commissioner of Education and the director of the Census Bureau, would receive boosts from...
Although the report indicates that the University expects improvement by 1978, it also warns that indices charting the availability of women and minority candidates for employment are based on 1970 census information. "Since 1970 increasing proportions of women and minority group persons have prepared for professional and managerial careers so that 1970 census information may not now adequately reflect present ratios of availability," the report states...