February 26: 35 Years of Freedom, Kentucky

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Reinette F. Jones, University of KentuckyFollow

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A snapshot of the status of African Americans in Kentucky in the year 1900: Populations, Occupations, Migration, Immigration.

Sources:

1900 Census: Volume I. Population, Part 1. Statistics of Population. Table 23, p. 618; State or Territory of Birth. Table 29, pp. 702-705.

1900 Census Special Reports: Occupations at the Twelfth Census. Statistics of Occupations. Table 41, pp. 282, 284, & 286.

Cummings, John, and Joseph A. Hill. Negro Population in the United States, 1790-1915. The American Negro, His History and Literature. New York: Arno Press, 1968.

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2-26-2019

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