Death Rates for Certain Diseases in New Jersey by Color 1921-1930, Statistics from The Negro Wage Earner of New Jersey. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3X065J0
DescriptionThis is a chart from a study done by Dr. Egerton Elliot Hall of the unequal distribution of employment across races, particularly concerning African Americans and white Americans throughout the 1910s through the early 1930s within New Jersey. During this time many African American migrants from Southern states were moving to the New Jersey area. Through this study Hall explores the effects of the unequal distribution of employment on various aspects of the lives of African Americans such as their health and education. This particular chart demonstrates the rate of death of African Americans from tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease, cancer, homicide, and other causes compared to the death rate of whites by the same causes. In all catagories, except for cancer, the death rate of the African Americans is significantly higher than the death rate of the whites by the same causes. This chart was adapted from the Division of Vital Statistics of the United States Bureau of the Census.