WHERE WHITE MILL HANDS LIVE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
WHERE SOME OF THE POORER NEGROES LIVE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
COMPANION PICTURES
to show that there is comparatively little difference in the material comfort of the two classes
Take, for example, Pulaski County, through which I drove that November morning with Mr. Brown. In 1870 the coloured and white population were almost exactly equal—about 6,000 for each. In 1880 the Negroes had increased to 8,225 while the whites showed a loss. By 1890 the towns had begun to improve and the white population grew by about 700, but the Negroes increased nearly 2,000. And, finally, here are the figures for 1900: Negroes 11,029; Whites 7,460.
I have not wished to darken our observations with too many statistics, but this tendency is so remarkable that I wish to set down for comparison the figures of a “white county” in northern Georgia—Polk County—which is growing whiter every year.
| Negroes | Whites | ||||
| 1880 | 4,147 | 7,805 | |||
| 1890 | 4,654 | 10,289 | |||
| 1900 | 4,916 | 12,940 |
Driving out Negroes
One of the most active causes of this movement is downright fear—or race repulsion expressing itself in fear. White people dislike and fear to live in dense coloured neighbourhoods, while Negroes are often terrorised in white neighbourhoods—and not in the South only but in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, as I shall show when I come to treat of Northern race conditions. I have accumulated many instances showing how Negroes are expelled from white neighbourhoods. There is a significant report from Little Rock, Arkansas: