The Extraordinary Composition of Rural Black Population outside the South

NE OF THE MOST extraordinary developments of modern times is the rapid and accelerating urbanization of American blacks. At the end of the Civil War only about ten percent lived in urban areas, and on the eve of World War I the proportion was little more than a quarter as compared with half of the white population. And among the urban residents blacks were disproportionately represented in the smaller places. In 1910 cities of 500,000 or more included in their population one in every twentyfive blacks in the entire United States and one of seven blacks in urban areas, that is, in places of 2,500 or more. In comparison, one in seven of the total white population lived in such large cities, as did one of three urban whites

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