CHAPTER III. 

 CITY AND INTER-STATE MIGRATION 



The thousands of Negroes who have moved from Black 

 Belt districts into other rural areas have constituted the 

 great tide of migration. In the shift, however, a certain 

 number have become detached from the land and have moved 

 to nearby towns. Some have wandered still further into 

 Northern cities. The very rapid rate of increase in urban 

 areas indicates that the Negro population of towns and large 

 cities is constantly receiving additions from the rural areas. 

 It was noted in Chapter I, of this part, that the increase, 

 between 1900 and 1910, of 63,765 Negroes in the towns of 

 over 2,500 in Georgia was numerically less than the increase 

 of 78,409 Negroes in rural districts, but on a percentage basis 

 this means a rate of increase of 39.6 per cent in cities as 

 against 9 per cent in rural districts. 



Part of this rapid rate of increase in urban population 

 was due to the extension of city boundaries between 1900 

 and 1910 to include new areas, part to the 14 places which 

 were smaller than 2,500 in 1900 but larger than 2,500 in 

 1910, and part to the natural increase by births over deaths. 

 But fully 25,000 of the increase is attributable to migration 

 from country town. Excluding the tov/ns added to the 

 urban area between 1900 and 1910 because of their growth, 

 and noting the increase only in towns which were considered 

 urban in 1900, the growth shown is 46,00a 1 



Making due allowance for extension of corporate limits 

 in these towns the following is a very close approximation 

 of their true increase by migration : 



Negro Population 



Towns of 2,500 in 1900 161,061 



Estimate same area 1910 203,061 



Increase 1900-1910 42,000 



Per Cent Increase 1900-1910 26.0 



iU. S. Bureau of the Census. Negro Population, 1790-1915, 

 p. 96. 



