The 1900 census in America

•Ninety percent of African Americans still lived in the Southern US in 1900.

•Three-quarters of black households were located in rural places.

•Only about one-fifth of African American household heads owned their own homes (less than half the percentage among whites).

• About half of black men and about thirty-five percent of black women who reported an occupation to the Census said that they worked as a farmer or a farm labourer.