Chart, "Occupations of Black Residents of Pensacola, ca. 1900"

Chart, "Occupations of Black Residents of Pensacola, ca. 1900"

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Occupations of Black Residents of Pensacola, ca. 1900

April 2019

At the turn of the century, African Americans made up approximately 43% of Pensacola's workforce. This chart shows the distribution of jobs across the city's black workers. Professionals and merchants made up 4.65%, servicers and skilled laborers made up 13.95%, and unskilled and shipyard laborers made up 81.40%.

Data pulled from James R. McGovern, The Emergence of a City in the Modern South: Pensacola 1900-1945 (DeLeon Springs, FL: E.O. Painter Printing Co., 1976), 64.

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