Evening journal., 1915-04-12
.COLORED RACE
Shows PROGRESS
Own More Homes and IL
literacy Rate is Greatly
Decreased
1913 PER CENT GROWTH
IN THE POPULATION


The bulletin on Negroes in the
United states, soon to he issued by
Director Samuel L. Rogers, of the
Bureau OF the Census. Department Of
Commerce, indicates that there has
been among Negroes an increasing
tendency toward home ownership. a.
marked increase in the percentage Of
school attendance. a pronounced de-
crease In the percentage Of illiteracy,
a decrease in the mortality rate. and
an increase In the proportion Of
church membership.
This bulletin. which is special
compilation OF information derived
from the thirteenth census and from
other inquiries conducted by the Cen
sus Bureau. brings together In one
publication all the principal data per-
tanning 10 the Negro race which are in
the possession of the bureau. The
work of planning and arranging the
statistical tables, as we'll as all the
clerical work, was done by Negro
employees.
The Negro population OF the United
states increased from 757,20S. or 1913
per cent Of the total population. in
1890, to 9,S2I763. or 107 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 223 per cent Since 1910
there has been a continuous decrease
/ in the proportion which Negroes have
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
Negroes during the past hundred
years.
The largest Negro population in
any state In 1910 was that Of Georgia.
ll76.9S1; Mississippi was second,
with lOO9.4S7, and Alabama third
with 9OS.2S2.
or the 9.S27.763 Negroes in the
United States in 1910. 7.777O77. or 79.t
per cent. we're reported as of pure
Negro blood, the remaining 1850 CSC.
or 2O.9 per cent. being classed as
"mulattoes.' For census purposes
this term covers all persons of white
and Negro blood. whatever the pro-
portion. The fgIres indicate a con
tinuous increase in the percentage of
mulattoes during the past 40 years.
In Mississippi and South Carolina
the negro population was more than
80 per cent. Of the total in 1905. .
per cent. and 55.? per cent. respec-
lively; and in Georgia, Louisiana,
Alabama and Florida the percentages
ranged between 40 and 5O-45.1, 43.l,
42.5, and Il, respectively. In each OF
} ~ Al.
states of Mississippi. Louisiana. Ala.
bama, South Carolina Georgia. Ar.
kansas, Florida. and Tennessee. al
least 75 per cent. Of the total popula-
tion was Negro in 1910. OF the south.
ern states, West Virginia had the
smallest percentage of negroes. 5.3
Outside OF the South there was nc
state in which the percentage was as
high as 5, the highest being that for
Missouri. as. There were only five
other Northern states-New Jersey
Kansas. Pennsylvania. Ohio and lndi.
ana-in which the proportion of ne
groes exceeded per cent.
The center of population" for thC
Negro race in the United States is now
located about 54 miles north-north
east of Fort Payne. Dekalb county, il
northeastern Alabama. Its movement
ever since 1890, has been in a south
westerly direction, but during tn
decade 190O-1910 II moved only o.
miles to the west-southwest, Will,
during the same period the center o
total population moved 80 miles to tn
westward.
The percentage OF Ncfoes in rura
communities-tha is, outside of in
corporated places and New Englan
towns of $500 inhabitants or more
decreased from S0.2 in 1890 to 77.3 il
1900 and to 1875 in 1910. The CORES
b ponding percentages for the total pop
b ulatiOn were 639 in 1890, 59.5 d
1900. and 53.7 in 1910.
There are forty-threc cities each o
which had more than 10000 Negro IN
, habitants in 1910. Ten of these citie
lie outside of the southern states. Tn
, total Negro population Of these forty
I three cities was 1.34l .46S. Washing
ton stood at the head of this list wit
Negro population of 94,446. Will
, New York. New Orleans. Baltimor
/ and Philadelphia occupied second
third. fourth and fifth places with 81
. 700. S9,262, S7.749 and S4.459. respect
\ lively The percentage of increase L
2 Negro population in Washington be
8 tween 1900 and 1910. however. wa
4 lower than for most OF the other citie
I in the list, being only SO. Tho great
= est gain. both numerically and pre-
portionally. was shown by Birmins
y ham. Ala. whose Negro population in
q creased by 35.730. or 215.6 per cen
= New York and Philadelphia shove
a the next largest numerical gains, 81
n O43 and u .4S6. respectively. the rate
Of increase for these cities being 81
per cent. and $40 per cent, respect
lively.
Ninety-nine and two-tcnths per cen
OF all Negroes in the United States
= 1910 we're natives Of native paren'
Y age, only four-tenths Of per cent. b'
u ing foreign born. while the remainin
fourth-tenths Of per cent. we're n;
+, tives Of foreign, or mixed native an
10 foreign parentage. OF the 4O,S39 foi
i eign-born Negroes in the Unite
:. States. 24426. or a trife more than {
= per cent, came from Cuba and n
M West Indies. Only 4T3 we're born
~ Africa.
"a The sex distribution Of the Negro,
m in the United States is on the has
g OF 1873 males TO 100 females, viii
for the native white of native paren
nm age. the ratio is 1O4 males to 100 I
- males.
60 The statistics show a tendency
H. the part of the negroes To marry