According to the US Census Bureau, as of 2009, 19% have a bachelors compared with 38% of the population in general
As of 2020, about 24% of African Americans in the United States ages 25 and older had obtained a bachelor's degree or higher. This percentage has been steadily increasing over the years but still lags behind other racial groups.
In 1860, the majority of African Americans in the United States were enslaved. Slavery was legal in many Southern states, and the vast majority of African Americans in those states were held in bondage.
You can retrieve this information by going to the U.S. Census Bureau website. The below link will take you to the detailed tables for current population. These tables are listed under Educational Attainment in the United States. Refer to: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps2003.html Answer From Esteban Yanez: The percentage of African Americans who went to college in the year 2000 was 39% and the population was 3,154,502 people.
The states with the highest percentage of African Americans are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. In terms of crime rates among African Americans, the states with higher rates of crime among this group include Illinois, Louisiana, and Missouri.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, African Americans make up approximately 52% of all convicted rapists in the United States.
Enslaved African Americans composed about one third of the population of the southern states before the American Civil War.
An article written in 2009 states that there are 1.078 million African Americans who have Masters degrees.
Throughout the entire United States at varying degrees.
ANSWER:The Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
the right of African Americans to vote was a matter for the states to decide.
Many states rolled back protections for African Americans.
He believed that the right of African Americans to vote was a matter for states to decide.
Stephen Douglas believed in the principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery. He was a prominent politician and the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. Douglas was known for his role in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and sparked further tensions over the issue of slavery.
Figured it out. The answer is: The right of African Americans to vote was a matter for states to decide. [APEX]
they made african americans pass a test first to see if they can read and write
They made African Americans pass a test to prove they could read and write
The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
African-Americans are not the majority in any state. In all states, with the exception of Hawaii, European-Americans are the majority. Mississippi has the largest percentage of African-Americans, at 37%. New York has the largest population of African-Americans, at 3,080,000.