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Key statistics from African American Civil Rights. A level History OCR.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Number of African American schools in the south in 1876, compared to 1860. | 70,000 in 1876. 0 in 1860 |
| Percentage of African American and white children unable to write in the south in 1890. | 65% African American. 15% White. |
| Percentage of African American farmers who owned their own land in 1910. | 20% |
| Number of African Americans lynched between 1882 and 1968. | Around 3,500 |
| Number of African Americans who enrolled to vote after the Civil War. | 700,000 |
| Number of African Americans in Alabama in 1900 and the number registered to vote. | 181,000 males at voting age. 3,000 registered to vote. |
| Number of African Americans elected to congress in the 1870s. | 22 |
| Number of African Americans elected to state legislatures during reconstruction, and percentage from the south. | 600. 90% from the south. |
| Number of African American Senators 1881-1969 | 0 |
| Number of African American Congressmen 1901-1929 | 0 |
| Proportion of African American farmers and white farmers who were sharecroppers in 1890. | 3 in 4 African Americans. 1 in 3 whites. |
| Pay gap of male African American workers to male white workers in 1900. | African Americans earned 45% of the pay of white Americans on average. |
| Number of African American owned businesses in the south in 1915. | 30,000 |
| Percentage of African American and white American males with high school diplomas in 1940 | 3.8% African Americans. 13% whites. |
| Illiteracy rate for African Americans aged 14 or older and white Americans in 1952. | 10.2% African Americans. 1.8% whites. |
| Percentage of African Americans who were college graduates in 1950. | 2%. |
| Number of African Americans lynched in 1915. | 69 |
| Percentage home ownership for African American and white Americans in 1940. | 20.5% African Americans. 42.1% whites. |
| Percentage of African Americans registered to vote 1940, 1947 and 1952. | 2% in 1940. 12% in 1947 and 20% in 1952. |
| Number of African American congressmen in 1947. | 2 (out of 535). |
| Number of African Americans in federal employment 1933 and 1946. | 50,000 in 1933. 200,000 in 1946. |
| Mean yearly income for African American and white American males in 1949. | $1,950 African Americans. $3,150 whites. |
| Percentage of African American and white American families on welfare relief in 1935. | 30% African Americans. 10% whites. |
| Number of towns and cities that had desegregated public areas by 1962. | 810 |
| Increase in percentage of African Americans with a high school diploma by the end of the 1960s. | 40-60% |
| Illiteracy rate for African Americans aged 14 or older and white Americans in 1979. | 1.6% African Americans. 0.4% whites. |
| Percentage of African Americans and white Americans who graduated in 1992. | 76% African Americans. 82% whites. |
| Percentage of African Americans and white Americans with a bachelor's degree in 1992. | 12% African Americans. 22% whites. |
| Percentage of African Americans and white Americans who rented their homes in 1992. | 56% African Americans. 31% whites. |
| Percentage of young African American men in prison, on parole or on probation in 1992. | 23% |
| Number of African American voters in Mississippi in 1964 and in 1968. | 6.7% in 1964 and 67.5% in 1968. |
| Number of African American congressmen in 1991. | 26 (out of 535) |
| Unemployment rate of African Americans in 1992 and the national average. | 14.2% African Americans. 7.8% national average. |
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