The Negro family in Chicago by Frazier Edward Franklin 1894-1962

Author:Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Blacks
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press
Published: 1932-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

LEGEND 0 UNDER 15 YEARS _«. UNDER 5 YEARS — ♦ — UNDER I YEAR

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tion of children under fifteen to women of child-bearing age than for the city as a whole.^ At the same time these families

gro community, they represented average conditions in the Negro population considered abstractly, and did not bring out the important differences between the several classes in the Negro population or sections of the Negro community.

^ In Chicago, in 1920, the average size of the Negro "family" or household as defined by the census was 4.3 persons or the same as the whole city. It appears from Table XIV that the size of the Negro family was smaller in the zones where the migrant families tended to be segregated at one end of the

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THE NEGRO FAMILY IN CHICAGO

probably showed the effects of the migrations, for there were relatively few children under five years of age. In the next zone the decline in family life was indicated by the marked decrease in the proportion of children in the population and the corresponding increase in the average size of

TABLE XIV

Average Size of the Family and Xumber of Children to Ont: Hunt)red

Females Fifteen to Forty-four Years of Age in the Seven Zont:s

OF THE South Side Negro Community, Chicago, 1920

Average size

family*. . . Children:

Under 15..

Under 5...

Under i...

of the

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

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