Country music legend Kenny Rogers was 11 years old in 1950 when a census taker came to his family's home in Houston's Fourth Ward. Rogers lived at the San Felipe Court Apartments in unit 1037 with his ...
At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, precisely 72 years after enumerators began knocking on the doors of some 46 million American houses and apartments, the federal government made public what they learned: ...
Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms went online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the merely curious. By Michael Wines ...