Question

what does this mean : "One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success."

Answer 1

I believe it means back when slavery was around most of the African Americans were in the South and most of them tried to escape but couldn’t. So therefore it’s sayin that since they left and when the civil war ended and all that and when slavery was abolished the South was their home now, and so that’s why today African Americans live mostly in the South.