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Negro Migration 



a systematic treatment of land tenure and its importance 

 in Negro life; second, a treatment of the relationship be- 

 tween the changes in land tenure and farm population, with 

 a brief statement concerning the migration from country to 

 city and from South to North, and third, a summary of 

 the effects of migration on colored population, institutions, 

 and race relations, with recommendations for attacking 

 those problems which are emphasized by the movement. 



GEORGIA: A TYPICAL COTTON STATE. 



In general it may be said that the conditions of agricul- 

 ture, industry and population movement are distinctly dif- 

 ferent in the Northern States, the Border States and the 

 Cotton States. In the North the Negro rural population is 

 almost negligible. The colored man is attracted almost 

 wholly by city opportunities, and with one or two excep- 

 tions, the great excess of females in Northern Cities in 

 1910 indicated a predominance of domestic service oppor- 

 tunity. The movement during the European war was, how- 

 ever, industrial. The Border States — Maryland, Virginia, 



Map I. 



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tflCflaiSJS OF K2GR0ES gy SJ4TJS. 190D-191* 



Shading lnfiloates lnorease In rural districts. 

 Symbols Indicate increase In ofUes. 



Per oent lnorease. rural districts . rer cent Increase, cltlts . 

 J"] Under 6 

 §11 S to 12 1/2 



12 1/2 to 20 

 20 and OTer. 



'O Under 20 

 <E> 20 to 40 

 40 to 60 

 • 60 and over. 



