CHICAGO DEFENDER: CHECKING MIGRATION
A short column published in 1919 that criticizes the South’s hypocrisy for wanting the labor but not the citizenship of blacks, and that praises migration to the North as a way of escaping brutal treatment and exposing the South’s dependency on black labor.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/985.htm
OUTWARD MIGRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM ALABAMA
A bar graph showing, in tens of thousands, the increasing outward migration of African Americans from Alabama from the 1900s to the 1960s.
http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec47graph.html
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NUMBER AND PERCENT OF NEGROES IN UNITED STATES… 1890-1920
An interesting series of tables charting the increase of African Americans living in urban communities, and their decline in rural communities and in the South from 1890 to 1920. From The Negro Yearbook, an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1107.htm
THE EXTENT OF NEGRO PROGRESS
This table charts the “remarkable progress” of African Americans in terms of economic, educational, and religious variables, such as homes owned, percent literate, and value of church property. From The Negro Yearbook.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1112.htm