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and 5,445 in Iyouisiana. By 1900 most of these had died 

 and no more had moved in to take their place and in the 

 table above these States are included in the 38,022 Georgia- 

 born Negroes in other Southern States. It will be seen 

 that there was a rapid increase in the movement to Florida 

 between 1900 and 1910, just enough movement to Alabama 

 to barely maintain the Georgia-born population, a slight 

 movement to Tennessee and very slight movement to other 

 Southern States, the Georgia-born Negroes in these States 

 decreasing 11,091 either through deaths or further move- 

 ment. 



Between 1916 and 1917 the Western areas and parts 

 of Northern Florida were disturbed by the boll weevil 

 and floods. The boll weevil also entered Georgia and 

 accelerated the movement from the State. The westward 

 stream of migration was blocked by adverse conditions and 

 this movement had, perforce, to turn northward. Thus at 

 first it was not so much a change in the essential character 

 of the forces as a change in their area of incidence and their 

 intensity which caused the movement to change in direc- 

 tion. Since the northern opportunity was predominantly 

 urban this was an urban movement. 



CLASSES MIGRATING 



Truthe first hand st udy of the mig ration of 1916-17 made 

 for the Department of Labor, the writer 9 esti mated that 



Whereas a bout 6 T 000 Negro fa rmers anH farm laborers had 



moved North during the two years, there were fr om 5,000 to 

 JL QQO laborers who moved from cities and towns in Geo rgia. 

 The following extracts from the report made on the situa- 

 tion at the time indicate the character of this movement : 



"The towns Iprated in ibfl rA^nnc where the farmers 

 were disturbed have, nf ™^rse . suffered a gr eater loss than 

 the towns of the Pi edm o nt and tho B l a ck Belt. Skilled 

 iof.r>™>rc AcpA^ioiiy ko^A bf Ar> ^ ro wn from all towns ^B ecause 



9 See Footnote 1, Chapter II. The facts are as of the summer 

 of 1917. 



