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The Gift of Black Folk
The men were employed as follows:
| in agriculture | 1,566,627 |
| in extraction of minerals | 72,892 |
| in manufacturing and mechanical industries | 781,827 |
| in transportation | 308,896 |
| in trade | 129,309 |
| in public service | 49,586 |
| in professional service | 41,056 |
| in domestic and personal service | 273,959 |
| in clerical occupations | 28,710 |
The women were employed as follows:
| in agriculture | 612,261 |
| in manufacturing and mechanical industries | 104,983 |
| in trade | 11,158 |
| in professional service | 39,127 |
| in domestic and personal service | 790,631 |
| in clerical occupations | 8,301 |
A list of occupations in which at least 10,000 Negroes were engaged in 1920 is impressive:
| Farmers | 845,299 |
| Farm laborers | 664,567 |
| Garden laborers | 15,246 |
| Lumber men | 25,400 |
| Coal miners | 54,432 |
| Masons | 10,606 |
| Carpenters | 34,217 |
| Firemen (not locomotive) | 23,152 |
| Laborers | 127,860 |
| Laborers in chemical industries | 17,201 |
| Laborers in cigar and tobacco factories | 12,951 |
| Laborers in clay, glass and stone industries | 18,130 |
