Description
Negroes in Missouri. - - The population of the State of Missouri, as recently announced by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, is 94.7% white and 5.2% Negro. In 1910 the percentage Negro was 4.8%.
The Negro population, which was 157,452 in 1910, increased to 178,241 in 1920, an increase of 13.2%. The white population in the same period increased from 3,134,932 to 3,225,044 or 2.9%.
The percentage of negroes in Platte County in 1910 was 5%, which in 1920 it had increased (decreased) to 3.3%.Date(s) of Creation
10/14/1921
