The Gazette

OUR CLEVELAND POPULATION

Cleveland's Afro-American population has increased 308.1 per cent. in the last ten years, while the corresponding increase in the "white" population has been but 38.1, according to figures made public by the census bureau at Washington, D. C., Wednesday. The "white" population of this city, as compiled in the last census, is 762,005 and our population 34,474. Residents, of all other races, including Chinese, Japanese and Indians, are numbered at 362. The "white" population in 1910 was 551,925 and the number of Afro-Americans, 8,448. Figures show the "white" population now constitutes 95.6 per cent. of the total, as compared with 98.4 per cent. in 1910. Our population makes up 4.3 per cent. of the total at present, as against 1.5 in 1910. The census figures show there are 413,253 males in the city and 383,588 females. The total Afro-American population of Cleveland, as announced by the U. S. census in 1910 and 1920, should have been from four to six thousand in excess of the figures announced. Hundreds, yes thousands of our people are taken for "whites" and others "overlooked," by the census enumerators. It is also true that between five and ten thousand have returned South, since the middle of November last, owing principally to lack of employment and reduced wages. It is interesting to note the fact that Cleveland, last year, had over two thousand more Afro-American residents than Charleston, S. C., that city being credited with only 32,292.