The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-03-12
Total 1897, ,763 Negroes in y. 5.
- Georgia Has Largest Num-
Der and Mississippi in
Second Place
INCREASE is LESS
THAN WHITE POP.
Difference Due Partly to Immigra.
tion = Illiteracy and Mortality
are Less Growth in
Home Ownership

BY United Press.
Washington, April 12.-The bulletin
on negroes In the United States soon
to be issued by Director Sam l.. Rog-
ers OF the bureau Of the census, depart
ment Of commerce, indicates that
there has been among negroes an in
creasing tendency toward home own
ership, marked increase in the per
centage OF school attendance, pro-
nounced decrease in the percentage OF
llliteracy, decrease in the mortality
rate, and an increase in the proportion
of church membership.
Increase in Population.
The negro population of the United
States increased from 57,2OS or 1913
per cent of the total population, in
1890 to 0,S27,7 ,76S, or 10.7 per cent Of
the total, in 1910. The increase be-
tween 1900 and 1910 was at the rate
OF ll.2 per cent, while during the
same period the white population in
creased by 22.3 per cent. Since 1910
there has been continuous decrease
IN the proportion which negroes nave
formed of the total population, due, at
least in part, to the fact that the white
population has been continually aug.
mented BY immigration, while there
has been very little immigration of ne
groes during the past hundred years.
The largest negro population in any
state in 1910 was that of Georgia,
1,176,9S7; Mississippi was second, with
1,oO9,4S7; and Alabama third. with
90S,2S
OF the 9,S27,763 negroes in the Unit
ed States in 1910, 7,777O77, or 79.1
or 20.9 per cent, being classed as 'mu~
lattoes." For census purposes this
term covers all persons of mixed white
and negro blood, whatever the proper
tion. The figures indicate a continu-
GUS increase in the percentage of mu-
lattoes during the past 40 years.
Density Statistics.
In Mississippi and South Carolina
the negro population was more than
so per cent of the total in 1905. 2
per cent and 55.2 per cent, respective;
and in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama
and Florida the percentages ranged
between 40 and 50--45.1, 43.1, 42.5 and
Al, respectively. In each of SO coun-
ties, scattered throughout the states
Of Mississippi Louisiana Alabama,
South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas.
Florida, and Tennessee. at least rs per
cent Of the total population was negro
in 1910. OF the southern states, West
Virginia had the smallest percentage
of negroes, SO. Outside of the south
there was no state in which the per
centage was as high as 8, the highest
being that for Missouri as. There
were only five other northern states
New Jersey, Kansas, Pennsylvania
Ohio, and Indiana-in which the pro
portion of negroes exceeded 2 per cent
Urban and Rural
The percentage Of negroes in rura
communities that is, outside OF incor
porated places of New England towns
of $500 inhabitants ore more--decreas
ed from 500 in 1890 to 77.3 in 100
and to 1875 in 1910, The correspond
ing percentages for the total populs
tion were $40 in 1890, $50 in 1905
and 53.7 in 1910.
There are 43 cities each Of whic
| had more than 10000 negro inhabitant
in 1910 Ten of these cities lie ou
side Of the southern states, The tot;
negro population Of these 43 cities wa
1,S41 ,46S Washington stood at th
: head Of this list with negro popul
tion Of 94,446, while New York, Ne
! Orleans, Baltimore and Philadelphl
occupied, second. third, fourth an
fifth places, with 91,709, S9.262, SAT-
! and S4,459, respectively.
+ Nativity, Sex, Marital Condition.
Ninety-nine and two-tenths per cel
of all negroes in the United Estates