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Table Bc793-797 - Illiteracy rate, by race and nativity: 1870-1979

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  Bc793 Bc794 Bc795 Bc796 Bc797
  All persons White Black and other races
All Native-born Foreign-born
Row Year Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent
1 1870 20.0 11.5 ---- ---- 79.9
2 1880 17.0 9.4 8.7 12.0 70.0
3 1890 13.3 7.7 6.2 13.1 56.8
4 1900 10.7 6.2 4.6 12.9 44.5
5 1910 7.7 5.0 3.0 12.7 30.5
6 1920 6.0 4.0 2.0 13.1 23.0
7 1930 4.3 3.0 1.6 10.8 16.4
8 1940 2.9 2.0 1.1 9.0 11.5
9 1947 2.7 1.8 ---- ---- 11.0
10 1950 3.2 ---- ---- ---- ----
11 1952 2.5 1.8 ---- ---- 10.2
12 1959 2.2 1.6 ---- ---- 7.5
13 1969 1.0 0.7 ---- ---- 3.6 2
14 1979 0.6 0.4 ---- ---- 1.6 2



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