The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-05-04
TEN MILLION NEGROES.
oIored Population More Than Twice
as Large as in 1860.

90 80 NC 90 W aoNSs
When the census figures of 1900
we're published they revealed the fact
hat in the forty years since slavery
he negro population had doubled. II
vas 4,I4l $50 in 1860 ana S.S33.994 in
900.
Now that we are beginning To get
eturns from the 1910 census, writes
Booker II. Washington in the indie
pendent. we learn that during the last
on years the race has added almost
mother million (99i3O0) To it's sta
are.
According to the thirteenth census
ne negro population was 9,S2S,2ai
and If II has Increased at the same
ate since 1910 that II did before name
Y, 1880 per cent for the decade, or
about 100000 Il year. IL is now consid-
rably more than 10000, 900.
The importance Of these facts is that
{ assures the ply steal existence of the
ace. rhe negro is not dying out The
ate of Increase among negroes is not
Us great as 1t was some years ago. but
hat is true Of every civilized country
the world in which the popula-
ion is not Increased by inlmigratio
The census of 1911 shows. for ex-
lmple, that the rate Of increase FOR tho
English people, measured by the cx-
eess of births over deaths, Is 1874 POI
ent. The natural rate of increase of
the white population, eXclud-
ng increase by immigration, was es-
mated at 20 per cent. in the period
1880 to 1890, and is not quite Is per
ent for the period from 1900 TO 1910
The census shows that the white
reputation Is increasing more rapidly
than the negro i'm the southern states.
This is due in part to the fact that
while there is movement in the black
population northward from the border
states like Kentucky. Tennessee and
MARY land. there is at the same time
A movement of the white population
southwark. particularly in the direction
of Florida Louisiana, oklahoma and
Texas.
The statistics show. for example. that
while the negro population has actually
decreased In the border states men,
toned, and the increase in Virginia
and Delaware was no more than 1.b
per cent. the increase OF the negro
population In the northern states was
1874 per cent
This does not mean, as some per-
sons have said. that the negro popula-
tion is shifting from the southern to
the northern states. The fact is that
the total increase of negro population
In the NORTH during the decade from
1900 to 1910 amounted to moro than
l67,S19. During the same period ne
gro population in the south has grown
from 1929, 96s to S,749.390. On increase
of S2G.42l. AS a matter of fact. the
increase i'm the north over the south
has been no more than one half Cf /
per cent of the whole negro popula-
ton.
The truth is, that negro emigration
from the border states has not been
directed exclusively toward the north.
ON the contrary. there has been. per-
haps, an even larger movement Of the
negro population south and west For
example. in Arkansas, Oklahoma and
West Virginia the negro population
has not only increased in numbers
more rapidly than In most southern
states but his increase had been more
rapid than that of the white popula-
ton In the same states.
In oklahoma the white population
/ Il, q.
1910. In the same period the negro
population increased l471 per cent. In
West Virginia the percentage of in
crease for whites was 2Gi per cent:
| for negroes, 47.5 per cent. In Arlxan-
| sas the percentage of increase for
whites was 1877 per cent; for negroes
| 20.7. In Florida, where there has been
q large immigration from the north
during the last decade, the negro pop
ulation increased less rapidly than the
| white.
In spite of this the percentage
OF Increase was s3.S showing that there
has been very considerable negro
immigration into Florida from other
parts of the south. The average in
crease of negro population In the
southwestern states-K Kansas, Louisi-
ana. Texas and Oklahoma-has been
Ill per cent
Another striking fact which the cen
sus figures have disclosed is that in
the readjustment which is now taking
place In the south between the city
and the rural population, the negro on
the whole remains in the country
while the white man goes 60 town.
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