132 Negro Migration 



Augusta, with 41,040, and Macon, with 40,665. All of these 

 places except Augusta are increasing in Negro population 

 at a fairly rapid rate. But they show a larger and larger 

 proportion of white residents in each successive census. All 

 have grown to their present size from small towns since the 

 Civil War. 



While the continued growth in size and complexity of 

 activity of these places offers a wider and wider range of 

 opportunity to white mill workers, clerical workers and 

 business men the only added attraction for Negroes in the 

 large city, other than the proportionate increase in domestic 

 service and common labor opportunities, is in the concen- 

 tration, of purely Negro activities such as banks, large 

 schools, church and lodge headquarters, and newspapers. 



The influence of domestic service opportunity is indicated 

 by' the grea t predominance of voung femal es in the city 

 Negropopulations. In lJie_£nuth. Atlantic- -States there were 

 in 19T0only 862^ males per 1,000 jeirt?l p<; in cities of 25,000 

 to^lUqU UU. "TiTcities e * im ,000 ar^ ™,»r .+w#> we re only 

 835 males p er 1,0 00 females. In Atlanta the re were only 

 810 ma les per 1,000 fem ales,' an excess oQ,464 females in 

 the Negro pop ulation. Of this excess. 3.562 was in. the 15 to 

 30 year age group.® 



INTER-STATE MIGRATION. 



One group of inter-state migrants may be classed as 

 c ity mi grants. These are the Negroes who move North. 

 They are attracted almost entirely by Urban opportunity. 

 This #roup was o£j^Jiyj£l¥Jitlk Jmportance before 1910. 

 The other group of in ter-state migrants is made up of those 

 who move a short distance from one rural are a to another 

 a cross S tafelines , or from one town to another jadihin the 

 South. This group, before 1910, included the large ma- 

 jority of the inter-state migrants in the Cotton Belt. Inas- 



« Negro Population, 1790-1915, opp. cite, pp. 154-201. 



