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Article: African-American Children Comprise a Slightly Larger Share of the
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- October 9, 1994
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Bryant D. Payne
Chicago Citizen
10-09-1994
African-American Children Comprise a Slightly Larger Share of the. Nation's Children
About 16 percent of 11 million of the nation's children were African-American in 1993, a slightly larger share than the 14 percent (9 million) noted in 1970. In addition, about three in 10 of the total African-American population were children in 1993, compared with about four in 10 in 1970.
The details are contained in a Census Bureau congressional brief entitled, Black Children In America-1993 (CB/94-1), released by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. The brief, the first in a series, uses data collected by the March 1993 Current Population Survey and other ...