The populations reported in the 1920 Census consisted of three groups, African American (identified as “colored” in the records), mulattos (individuals identifying as multiple races), and whites. Notable is a clear disparity between population numbers in these groups, the African American demographic comprised of more than three quarters of the total population in the area.
When compared to the previous decade, the white population more than doubled while African American residents increased by just over twenty people. Compared to Pensacola’s population trends in the 1910s, the city’s African Americans maintained their population level and the white population nearly doubled.
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