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Negro, Black and African-American Census Reports: 1920

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Fourteenth Census - 1920

Overview - 1920 Census
Census Bureau

Index of Questions
Census Bureau

Census of Population and Housing
Census Bureau

Fourteenth census of the United States taken in the year 1920: [Reports].
Hathi Trust
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Vol. I. Population, 1920. Number and distribution of inhabitants
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 154.9 MB]
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Vol. II. Population, 1920. General report and analytical tables.
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 283.1 MB]
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Composition and characteristics of the population by states.
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 239.2 MB]
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Occupations.
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 231.1 MB]

Vol. VI. Agriculture. Reports for states with statistics for counties and a summary for the United States and the North, South and West. Farms by sex, race and nativity of farmers.

Abstract of the fourteenth census of the United States, 1920. 1303 pages.
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United States. & Rositer, William S. (1922) Increase of population in the United States, 1910-1920. (Census monographs I)
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 21.6 MB]
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United States., & Hall, C. E. (1969). Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932. New York: Arno Press. 845 pages.
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Negro Population of Fifty Cities: 1880 to 1930 Release N-34. 1 page. 
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United States., & McKenney, N. D. R. (1979). The social and economic status of the Black population in the United States: An historical view, 1790-1978. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports, Special Studies, Series P-23, No. 80. 270 pages.
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Statistical Abstract

Annual compendium of data and statistics on finance, commerce, public lands, immigration, shipping, the Postal Service, population, railroads, education, agriculture and prices.

1920 - 1921 - 1922 - 1923 no digital copy - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 none published - 1928 - 1929

Other Reports

The blind and deaf-mutes in the United States, 1920. 90 pages. 
HathiTrust

The blind population of the United States, 1920. A statistical analysis of the data obtained at the fourteenth decennial census. 88 pages.
WorldCat
HathiTrust

The deaf-mute population of the United States, 1920. A statistical analysis of the data obtained at the fourteenth decennial census. 159 pages.
WorldCat

Deaf-mutes in the United States, 1920. 75 pages. 
WorldCat

Farm statistics by color and tenure of farmer; farm statistics by race, nativity and sex of farmer.
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 195.2 MB]

Feeble-minded and epileptics in institutions, 1923. 194 pages. 
Hathi Trust 
WorldCat

The Great Migration, 1910 to 1970 (Infographic)
Census Bureau  

The Great Migration of Afro-Americans, 1915-40. 1987. 3 pages. 
BLS

Mental defectives and epileptics in institutions: 1926-1937. Statistics of admissions and discharges of mental defectives, and epileptics in state, city and private institutions, 1931-1939

Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932. 845 pages. 
Google Books

The Negro at Work During the World War and During Reconstruction. 1920. 845 pages. 
BLS

The Negro at Work During the World War and During Reconstruction : Statistics, Problems, and Policies Relating to the Greater Inclusion of Negro Wage Earners in American Industry and Agriculture. 1921. 147 pages. 
BLS

Negro Women in Industry Women's Bureau Publication No. 20. Emma Shields, DOL Division of Negro Economics. 1922. 73 pages. 
FRASER
BLS

Negro Women in Industry in 15 States: Women's Bureau Bulletin No. 70. 1929. 83 pages. 
BLS

Number of prisoners in penal institutions, 1922 and 1917. 26 pages. 
Hathi Trust
WorldCat

Patients in hospitals for mental disease, 1923. 257 pages. 
WorldCat
HathiTrust

Patients in hospitals for mental disease: 1926-1937. 
HathiTrust

Vol. VIII. Manufactures. Persons engaged in manufacture industries.
Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 116.0 MB]

Prisoners, 1923. Crime conditions in the United States as reflected in census statistics of imprisoned offenders. 363 pages. 
WorldCat

Prisoners in state and federal prisons and reformatories / Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 1926-35
HathiTrust

Religious bodies, 1926. 
WorldCat
HathiTrust (volume 1)
HathiTrust (volume 2)

Retail Stores Operated by Negro Proprietors: 1935, 1929. Release N-45. 2 pages. 
WorldCat

Statistics of the Education of Negroes, 1929-30 and 1931-32. Bulletin, 1935, No. 13. 50 pages. 
WorldCat
ERIC

The urban Negro worker in the United States: 1925-36
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Images

Census Bureau clerks record vital statistics data

Census Bureau clerks record vital statistics data collected during the 1920 census. (link)

Portrait of man wearing hat.

Portrait of man wearing hat. (link)

map city population 1920
City Population 1920 (link)