Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-12-26
ten MILLION
NEGROES IN j. 5.
Figures From Census Blu
reau Show Migrations
From South to North
in 10 Years.
LITTLE MIGRATION
Negro Born in far South
Sheldon Comes to the
North.


issued special statement pertaining
to Negro migration in the United
States, as shown by the returns of the
fourteenth decennial census, taken Il,
of Jan. !. 1920.
The total number of Negroes born il
and living in the United States proper
was 1881 300, whiA total Includes IS.
80 Negroes for whom the state OF
birth was not iScartained by the cDlum
orators. The total number fOn. whom
the state of birth WAS reported. 10,
:42, IA. comprised S.2SS 400. or Sol pei
cent. who We're living in the states in
which born, and 2.OJ4 .24o or 100 pei
cent. who were living in other states
In 1910 thc percentage living in other
states was 1876, and in 1900 it was
1916.
Little Migration.
The total number of Negroes report
cd as born in the south chat part
Of the country lying south of the
southern boundaries Of New Jersey.
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois.
Missouri, and KanSas) was 9GO0.!43.
OF these, 1851. 1861. or SOL per cent.
were living in their native states in
1920: LOGS. 7SS. or IT. per cent. were
living in other southern states: and
7SO.79l. or 81 per cent. were living in
the north or west The total number
of Negroes reported as born in the
north or west was 7!1.191. Of whom
537,131. or 7o-t per cent. were living
in their native states in 1920: 157, 49,.
or 90 per cent. We're living in the
south Thus the proportion of southern
born Negroes who migrated to the
north or west. ST. pen cent. was only
about 0ne-fom.th larger than the pro-
portion of tlle Negroes who were horn
in the north or west and migrated to
the south. GA per cent.
The ngmhCq' of Negroes hO:n in tho.
south and living in the north or west.
less The number born in the north or
west and living in the south. was 733'.-
5T1. These may he termed the sur
vivors Of the net migration of Negroes
from the south to the north and west.
Til, number of southern born Negroes
living in the north and west increased
from 40, :i,4 in 1910 to 7S0.794 in 1920.
forming 400 per cent of the total
Negro population of the nortl, and west
in the earlier year and SOB per cent
in the later.
The migration of southern Negroes to
northern and western states ,mdouht-
ctlly took place TO Il materially greater
extent between 1910 and 1920 than
during thc preceding decade While III
is impossible to calculate exactly the
extent of this migration during the re-
cent decade. the available data Indicate
that approximately 100000. or some
what more than one-half. of the 49,
57l survivors of the net Negro migra-
ton from The south to the north and
west prior 10 Jan. I. 1920. left the south
subsequently to April 10 1910.
In general. the Negroes born in the
north and west and in the northern
part of the south have migrated TO Il
much greater extent than those born IN
the far south Considering as one group |
All thc Negroes born i'm the northern
and western states. the percentage liv-
ing. in 1920, in other states than those
in which born was 27.f: considering as
another group those born in Delaware.
Maryland. District of Columbia. Vir-
ginia. West Virginia, North Carolina.
Kentucky. Tennessee. Arkansas. and
Oklrhoma-i. O.. the northern part of
the S0utll---the corresponding percent
age was "a hut for the Negroes born
in the far southern states of south
Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Alabama.
Mississippi. Louisiana. and Texas. the
percentage living in states other than
those in which horn was only 49,
Although migration to the north and
west has not taken place among the
far southern Negroes to the same eX-
tent. relatively to their total numbers.
as among the Negroes in the northern
mart of the south. there was ncverthe-
less Il pronounced increase in such mi
grafton from the far south during the
past decade. For example: The Negroes
who were horn i'm South Carolina and
had migrated from that state to Penn
increased from 2.113 in 1910
to 11.624 in 1920: those from Georgia
Ia Pennsylvania increased from 1.llS
to 10. 1876: those from Florida To Penn
Sylvania. from 30, To $50: those from
Alabama TO Ohio. from Isl to 11.1SS:
those from Mississippi to Illinois. from :
.GI2 to 1916: those from Louisiana
Ia Illinois. from lG09 to SOS: and ;
those from Texas to Missouri from ;
1907 to 4,34i.