Negro Yearbook

tions, 362; Proportion Principal Classes Population in Gainful Occupations, 362; Per Cent
Negroes Total Persons in Each of Main Classes of Occupations, 362; Negroes Increasing

in Industries, 362; Distribution Negroes in Industries, 363; Number Negroes in Skilled

and Semi-Skilled Occupations, 363; Textile Industries Employing Largest Number Negroes,

364; Number Negroes Engaged in Business, 364; Occupations of Negro Women, 364; Oc-

cupations in Which There Were at Least 2,000 Negro Women, 364; Negro and Trades

Unions, 365.

INVENTIONS, 365-368.

First Negro to Receive Patent on Invention, 366; Number of Patents Granted to Ne-

groes, 366; Range of Negro Inventions, 366-368.

AGRICULTURE, 369-385.

Number Negro Farmers, 369; Distribution by Tenure Negro Farm Operators, 369;

Value Farm Property, 369; Decrease Negro Farmers in North, 370; Increase in South and

West, 370; Increase and Decrease Negro Farmers by States, 370; Increase and Decrease

White and Negro Farmers Show Similar Tendencies, 371-373; Total Negro Farmers by

States, 374; Tenure Negro Farmers by States, 375-377; Tenure by States Farms Operated

by Negroes, 378-379; Average Acreage, Improved Land and Value Land and Buildings Per-

Farm, 380; Amount Principal Crops Raised by Negro Farmers, 380; Distribution on Per-

centage Basis Principal Crops Raised by Negro Farmers, 380; Federal Farm Loans, 380-381;

Farm Demonstration Work Improves Negro Farming, 381; List Agents and Home Eco-

nomic Workers Under United States Farm Demonstration Work, 382-385.

NEGRO TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS, 385-387.

NEGRO IN BUSINESS, 387-395.

Sixty Years Business Progress, 387-390; Business Enterprises in Which 200 or More

Negroes Are Engaged, 390-391; Land Marks in Negro Business Enterprises, 391; Negro

Insurance Companies, 391-393; Negro Banks, 393-395.

CRIME, 395-403.

Differences in Number of Prisoners Considered Vitiate Comparison Crime Rates, 395;

Crime Rates Higher in the North Than in the South, 396; Proportion Commitments to

Prisons, Whites and Negroes Greater North Than South, 396; Negro Crime Rate Lower

Than Rate For Emigrant Races, 396; Juvenile Delinquents Per 100,000 of Population,

397; Lynchings, 397-402; Institutions in South For Negro Juvenile Delinquents, 403.

HEALTH, 403-423.

Mortality Statistics, 403-410; Birth Statistics, 410-411: Number of Deaths, Per 100,000

of Population From Certain Diseases, 412; Estimated Annual Cost of Sickness and Death
Among Negroes in Cities and States of the South, 413; Negro Physicians, 414; Medical
Associations, 414-416; Hospitals and Nurse Training Schools, 416-420; Necrology, 1922-
1924, 420-423.

POPULATION, 423-457.

Population Each Census Year, 1790-1910, 423; Population United States and Outlying

Possessions, 424; Percentage of Negroes in Total Population, 425-426; Black and Mulatto

Population, 427; Age Distribution, 432; Population by Sex, 432; Marital Conditions, 433;

Negro Population by States, 435; Total and Negro Population in the North and in the

South, 436; Migration Native Negro Population, 437; Center of Negro Population, 440;

Movement to Cities, 442; States, Counties and Cities Having Largest Number and Per-

centage of Negroes, 443; Counties Having Half or of More Their Population Negroes,

445; Cities Havin, 2,000 or More Negroes, 448; Total and Negro Population in Cities

Having 100,000 Inhabitants or More, 451; Total and Negro Population in cities having

from 25,000 to 100,000 Inhabitants 452; Males and Females of Voting Age, 456.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 458-460.

Educational, 458; For Professional Advancement, 459; For Economic Advancement,

458; For Political Advancement, 459; In the Interest of Negro Women, 459; For General

Advancement, 459

SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS FOR NEGROES, DIRECTORY OF, 460-461.

COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK FOR NEGROES, 461.

FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, 462-465.

General Statement Concerning, 462; Principal Organizations, 463-465.

NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY, 465-472.

First Negro Newspapers, 465; Number Negro Newspapers, 465; List of Monthlies,

Bi-Monthlies and Quarterlies, 465; List of Weeklies, 466-472; News Agencies, 472.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 473-510.

General, 473.

Particular, 473.

The Negro and Slavery-Slave Trade, 473; Slavery in Particular States, 474; Economic

and Social Conditions in the South, 474; Abolition, 475; Biographies, Anti-Slavery Men,

475; Slave Narratives, 476; Pro-Slavery Discussions, 476; Histories Treating of Slavery

Controversy, 476; The Free Negro and Colonization, 477.

480.

Civil War and Emancipation, 477.

Reconstruction, 478.

Present Conditions, 478; Race Relations. Books on, 480; Negro Migration, Books on,
Special Studies and Pubications, 481-483; List of Publications Committee of Twelve,

481; John Hopkins University Studies, 481; Atlanta University Studies, 481; Phelps-

Stokes Fellowship Studies, 482; Studies of Negro Groups, etc., 482; Occasional Papers,

John F. Slater Fund, 482; Publications of American Negro Academy, 483.

Folk Songs and Folklore, 483-485; Folk Songs, 483; Folklore, American, 484; Negro

Dialect, 485.

Lit rature and Art, 485.

Some Books by Negro Writers, 486-488; Law, 486; History, 486; Biography, 486; Edu-

cation, 487; Religion, 487; Fiction 487; Poetry, 488.

Articles in Current Periodica's on the Negro, 488-510; Education, 488; Economic Con-

ditions, 491; Migration, 493; Health and Sanitation, 494; Religion, 496; Negro in the World

War, 497; Suffrage, 497; Crime, Lynchings and Riots, 499; Pamphlets on Lynching, 502;

Race Problem, 502; Race Relations, 507; Race and Mental Ability 508.

Sixty Years of Progress

1866-1926.

January first, 1866, marked the beginning of the opportunity for Negroes in every part of the United States to enter upon an era of progress; for thirteen days before this date, this is, on December 18th, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment, declaring slavery in the United States abolished, was adopted. It is not generally recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 applied only to those states and sections of states then in rebellion against the Federal Government. The result was that there were almost one million slaves who were "for the present left precisely as though this proclamation was not issued." The decree of December 18th, 1865, however, freed all. On or about the first day of the following January the late masters and the late slaves entered into an agreement whereby the former were to furnish the land and the latter the labor to the end that both might live and prosper. Thus white and black set to work to rebuild the wasted and devasted South. In this rebuilding the Negro not only tilled the soil of the South, cleared her forests and helped to build her cities but in spite of many disadvantages he has himself made a most remarkable progress. The extent of this progress is shown in what follows:

Survey of Events Affecting Negroes

1922-1924.

Large Increase

In Property Holdings

Made by Negroes.

The most recent reports on property owning show that in 1923 Negroes in Georgia owned 1,632,863 acres of land assessed at $15,567,057. The value of their city property was $20,179,465; the total assessed valuation of all their property was $48,233,541. The Negroes of Virginia in 1922 owned 1,920,485 acres of land assessed at $28,899,656. The value of their city property in 1921 was $18,574,120; in 1923 its value was $20,065,409. The total valuation of all their property in 1923 was $68,354,407. The Negroes of North Carolina in 1923 owned 1,652,389 acres of land assessed at $48,343,205. The value of their city property was $30,332,118; the total assessed valuation of all their property was $102,435,004

Along with the movement of Negroes to cities has come a marked increase in the amount of property which they own in cities. Reports on property holding in Georgia and Virginia indicate that there is a tendency for Negroes to purchase less farm land than formerly. This probable decrease in the acquisition of rural property is offset, however, by the increase in the acquisition of property in urban centers.

There is, on the whole, an increase in the purchasing of property by Negroes. Through purchases and rises in value, property holdings of Negroes of the country are increasing each year by probably more than fifty million dollars. The value of property owned by the Negroes of the United States is now over $1,800,000,000. It is still true that the lands which they own amount to more than 22,000,000 acres or 34,000 square miles, an area greater than that of the five New England States, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Income From 12 Acre Farm

$6,000 A Year.

In the early part of 1924 extensive publicity was given to the fact that Riley Rogers, a Negro farmer, living near Lawrence, Kansas, had an income of $6,000 a year from a 12 acre farm. Truck gardening is his specialty. His aim is not to supply everything the market demands. While he raises irish potatoes, sweet corn, cauliflower, etc., his specialty is cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers. Practically all of his produce is sold to local stores. He has 4 1-2 acres under irrigation. The returns from the products of this plot was $4,500 for one year. His four sons and two daughters are graduates of the Kansas State University.

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