150 Negro Migration 



and morality is necessarily great. The writer's study of 

 Athens, Georgia, revealed the following condition of the 

 women with children under 18 years of age: 



Athens, Georgia. 



Conjugal Condition of 742 Negro Women with Children 



Number single 30 or 4 per cent of total 



Number widowed 113 or 16 per cent of total 



Number separated S3 or 7 per cent of total 



Number living with husband 546 or 73 per cent of total 



The number of women with illegitimate children indi- 

 cates' ulZioraIff)ra^^ and separated 



census does not tabulate separately the conjugal condition 

 of Negro women rearing children, but in the total female 

 population the following proportions prevailed in 1910: 



Conjugal Condition: Per Cent Female Population 15 Years of 

 Age and Over— 1910 (p. 237)2 



Single Married Widowed Divorced 



Negro 26.6 57.2 14.8 1.1 



White 30.1 59.0 10.1 .6 



This indicates that there are proportionately fewer col- 

 ored than white women single. This is probably due to 

 earlier marriages. But a larger proportion of Negroes are 

 widowed or divorced. The proportions in urban communi- 

 ties, where migration has upset the ratio between the sexes, 

 are quite different from the proportions in the population 



Conjugal Condition: Per Cent of Negro Female Population in 

 Urban Communities--1910 (p. 270) 



Single Married Widowed Divorced 

 Middle Atlantic States. 30.8 52.6 15.8 .5 



South Atlantic States.. 30.2 49.4 19.2 .9 



2 Inasmuch as this chapter is almost entirely based on data 

 contained in "Negro Population in the United States, 1790-1915" 

 U. S. Bureau of the Census, numerous footnotes are avoided by 

 merely including page references to this volume in parentheses in 

 the text. 



