The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-14
Black Race Forms Ten Per Cent
of the Population of
the Country.

States will be issued at an early
date by William j. Harris, direc-
tor of the census, which will con
tain all the principal information
obtained through the census re-
garding the number and distribu-
ton of the negroes, their rate of
increase, their sex and age distri-
button, and their marital condi-
ton.
The bulletin will sho what the
number of negroes in the United
States exclusive of the outlying
possessions in 1910 was 9,S27,763,
and they formed 1917 per cent of
the total population. In 1900 the
number of negroes was 8,833,994,
or 11.6 per cent of the total popu-
lation of that date. The increase
among the negroes during the de-
cade was 993,769, or 11.2 per cent,
as compared with an increase of
POS per cent among the native
whites and 30.7 per cent among
the foreign born whites. The
growth of the negro population
results from their own natural
increase, while the growth of the
white population is accelerated
by the great influx of immigrants
and the high birth rate in immi-
grant families.
OF the total number of negroes
in 1910 about one-fifth were re-
ported as mulatto that is, as hav-
ing some white blood. The pro-
portion that mulattos formed of
the total negro population in
creased from II per cent in 1870
to 1872 per cent in 1890, and to
20.9 per cent in 1910.
Urban and Rural Distribution.
Nearly three-fourth of the ne
groes (7,13S,534, or 1875 per cent?
were rural jewellers, while about
o~ne-fourth 2,6S9,229, or 27.4 per
cent? lived in towns or cities of
at least $50 0inhabitants.
Of a total Of 1858 counties in
the United States there were only
10 in which there were no ne
groes, and there were fifty-three
counties in 1910, as compared
with fifty-five counties in 1900, in
which seventy-two per cent of the
population was negro. There
were 263 counties in 1910 in which
fifty per cent of the population
was negro.
In 1910 there were 1885, 1881 ne
gro males in the United States, as
compared with 4,941, 092 negro fe-
males, the number of males to 100
females thus being $50, as COM
pared with a ratio of 106 for the
whites. The negroes were the
only race in the United States i'll
which there were more females
than males.
The negro males in the United
States of voting age numbered q
85,S73 in 1910, and the negro fe-
males of voting age numbered q
APT, 742.
Of the negroes 6 to 9 years of
age 498, 954, or 1913 per cent, were
reported as having attended
school during the school yeal
1909-10; of those 10 to, IA years OF
age, 791, 995, or 68.6 per cent, were
so reported; and of those Is to &c
years of age, 1913, $50, or 26,5 pei
cent. In each age group the per.
centage of school attendance was
much lower for the negroes than
for the whites.
Percentage Decreased.
OF the total number of negroes
10 years of age and over, 1927,
731, or 30.4 per cent, were report
ed as illiterate; among the whites
the percentage of %illiteracy was
five, being three among native
whites and 1877 among the foreign
born whites. The percentage Of
illiteracy among negroes decreas
ed from ST. in 1890 to 44.5 il
1900, and to 30.4 in 1910.
The total number Of farms OPP.
Grated by negroes in 1910 was
1913, $40; of this number, 218,97z
were operated by their owners
1884 by tenants, and 1,434 by
managers. The number of farm;
owned by negroes increased by
31,175, or 1875 per cent, between
1900 and 1910, and the number Of
negro tenants increased by rs,
100, or POS per cent, during the
decade The total value of farm
property operated by negroes il
1910 was 81, IA, 181, 900, as com
pared with $499, 941 900 in 1900
indicating that the value of agri
cultural property operated by ne
groes increased considerably more
than two-fold during the decade
The statistics show that 1,806, 72I
negro males and 1,050,8 $40 negro
females were engaged in agricul
ture.
The death rate among negroes
in 1910 in this area was 25.5 PEE
1000, showing a decrease as com
pared with the rate in 1900, which
was 29.4, and the death rates TO.