The three maps presented in this report show the geographic distribution of the Negro population of the United States in 1960 as well as the distribution of gains and losses in that population between 1950 and 1960.

• Map 1 shows the distributions of urban and rural Negro population throughout the country, and
• Map 2 the corresponding distributions of increases and decreases between 1950 and 1960. In these two maps, the information is given for urbanized areas and urban places outside urbanized areas; and for the rural population on the basis of counties.
• Map 3 presents the percent change in the Negro population between 1950 and 1960 for counties.

Each of the three maps refers to the 48 States and the District of Columbia exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii. Statistics for the Negro population in Alaska and Hawaii are not available for 1950 in the area detail used in these maps. However, the total Negro population in Alaska and Hawaii for 1950 and 1960 was very small, comprising less than one percent of the total Negro population in the United States in each census.