The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress

come? The State Census of 1905 gives nativity by countries only. Consequently, those born within the United States are not specified by State or territory

a population of 100,000,[46] 44.6 per cent were natives, 24.1 per cent were from Virginia, 19 per cent were from other S

t of the City's Negro population. The figures of the State Census of 1905, as well as those from a pe

reign Negro immigrants, while the Danish West Indies, Cuba, and those islands not specified, together make up 3.6 per cent, a total of

States, from which there are easy means of transportation to New York, naturally furnish the larger part. Virginia supplied 29.6 per cent of the 365 Manhattan residents; South Carolina, 11 per cent; Georgia, 6 per cent, and Maryland, 4.4 per cent. Taking the Southern States by themselves, 67.5 per cent of the 365 wage-earners were b

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