The Negro Family In The United States by Franklin Frazier E

Author:Franklin Frazier E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NATURAL SCIENCES, Biological sciences in general, General genetics. General cytogenetics
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press.
Published: 1940-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE FLIGHT FROM FEUDAL AMERICA 309

Avenue may be represented ideally by drawing concentric circles about the census tract in which the intersection of these two main thoroughfares is located (see Map V). The expansion of the community from the standpoint of population is shown graphically in the statistics on the increase of the Negro population in the five zones since 1910 (Diagram II). 31 In 1910 there were 15,028 Negroes, or 54 per cent of the Negroes in the Harlem area, concentrated in the first two zones (see Table 7). Negroes comprised less than a fifth of the entire population of these two zones; while in the three remaining zones marking their outward expansion they became less and less significant in the population. By 1920, Negroes constituted over three-fourths of the population of the first zone, over half of that of the second zone, and about a seventh of the population of the third. During this expansion native whites, whites of foreign extraction, and foreign-born whites were supplanted in these areas. However, the whites in the two outlying zones still resisted the expanding Negro population. By 1930 the Negro had not only taken over almost the entire first zone and increased to seven-eighths and two-fifths of the population of the second and third zones, respectively, but had become a significant element—22.7 per cent—in the population of the fourth zone. Even in the fifth zone, Negroes had increased from 2.5 to 6.2 per cent.

Although the five zones indicate the general tendency of the population to expand radially from the center of the

** Statistical data from the federal census and other sources on the five zones are based on data for the census tracts which are included more or less in five zones as represented ideally on the map. Data on Zone I are drawn from statistics on one census tract, No. 228; while data on the other four zones are based on statistics on the successive groups of census tracts encircling this central census tract.

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