OCCUPATIONS OF BLACK AMERICANS
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“Agriculture was and is still the most important division of occupations for Negroes. Second comes domestic and personal service which group of occupations also accounts for the biggest increase in absolute numbers of gainful workers, if we take the period 1890-1930 as a whole.”
Richard Sterner, Standard of Living of the Negro, Book I (1940)
The number of Black people occupied in farm work and domestic service fell to near zero by 1990. Clerical, managerial, and professional occupations have significantly increased over this period.