TODAY’S PHILADELPHIA POPULATION ETHNIC & ANCESTRY GROUPS PUBLIC 2016 – 1,567,872 Black or African American - 44.2% Hispanic &Latino – 14.4% Irish – 13.6% Italian – 9.2% German - 8.1% Asian 7.4% Polish – 4.3% English -2.9% American Indian or Alaskan - .9% PUBLIC INDUSTRIES JOBS EDUCATION 9.22% of workers walk to work Waitstaff Janitors and cleaners Laborers and material movers Food prep Customer Service Secretaries Bookeepers and Accountants Nursing aides Stock clerks Truck drivers Sales reps Teachers Repair workers Supervisors Receptionists Computer – based businesses Finance Insurance Companies Telecommunications Insurance Companies Printing and Publishing Biomedical Educational and Health Institutions Tourism Oil Refining Manufacturing 220 Public Schools 134,041 enrolled 103 Charter Schools (included Cyber) 69,505 enrolled (HS Diploma held by 82% Philadelphians. College Degrees held by 25.4%)
1850’S PHILADELPHIA POPULATION ETHNIC & ANCESTRY GROUPS PUBLIC JOBS 1850 - 121,376 1860 – 565,529 (20,630 African-Americans) Huge population growth due to bringing together city and county districts Germans Irish English African-Americans (3.7%) Welsh French Chinese PUBLIC JOBS INDUSTRIES EDUCATION Textiles and Clothing Metal Production Printing and Publishing Leather Production First public schools white only and segregated by sex 1818-First 8 public schools opened 1822 – First primary school for African Americans 1827- PA Society for Promotion of Public Schools founded by Roberts Vaux 1828- Lombard Street Grammar School for African American students opens 1838 – 17.000 students enrolled in public schools 1854 – PA legalized separation of races if 20 or more African American students could be educated together 1867 – 2/3 of Philadelphians aged 6-12 attended school Most workers walked to work Greater proportion of black women than white worked for wages than as unpaid housewives Tailors – weavers – spinners – cotton twisters Coopers – cabinet makers – joiners – chair makers Boot and shoemakers – tanners Draymen – carmen- wheelwrights – blacksmiths Stonemasons Inn keepers – grocers – brewers Publishers - teachers
What do these statistics tell you about economic opportunities for free blacks before the Civil War?