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Table 9: Number of Blacks and Percent of the Total Workforce Employed in Selected Michigan Professions, 1940-1990.
| 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | ||||
| Num. | Pct. | Num. | Pct. | Num. | Pct. | |
| Physicians | 125 | 2.0 | 196 | 2.7 | 324 | 3.4 |
| Attorneys | 63 | 1.2 | 95 | 1.7 | 142 | 2.2 |
| Clergy | 194 | 4.4 | 381 | 0.7 | 345 | 4.9 |
| Engineers | 25 | 0.2 | 78 | 0.3 | 201 | 0.5 |
| Editors, Reporters & Authors | 17 | 0.8 | 24 | 0.7 | 28 | 0.6 |
| College Teachers | 6 | 0.2 | 15 | 0.3 | 95 | 1.1 |
| Elementary & Secondary Teachers | 183 | 0.5 | 845 | 1.9 | 2687 | 3.9 |
| Social Workers | 92 | 3.3 | 363 | 8.9 | 760 | 13.3 |
| Nurses | 109 | 0.8 | 509 | 2.8 | 1322 | 5.3 |
| 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | ||||
| Num. | Pct. | Num. | Pct. | Num. | Pct. | |
| Physicians | 303 | 2.6 | 846 | 5.0 | 1076 | 5.0 |
| Attorneys | 193 | 2.3 | 685 | 4.2 | 1178 | 5.7 |
| Clergy | 404 | 5.0 | 549 | 5.5 | 676 | 6.2 |
| Engineers | 722 | 1.3 | 2156 | 3.4 | 2658 | 4.4 |
| Editors, Reporters & Authors | 161 | 3.2 | 242 | 4.0 | 621 | 6.6 |
| College Teachers | 440 | 2.2 | 1059 | 4.5 | 1059 | 5.6 |
| Elementary & Secondary Teachers | 7499 | 7.1 | 11528 | 9.2 | 13143 | 10.3 |
| Social Workers | 1652 | 19.0 | 4743 | 22.8 | 6989 | 25.9 |
| Nurses | 2535 | 7.9 | 3404 | 7.3 | 5612 | 8.1 |
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1940 Census of Population: Michigan, Vol. 1, Part 24 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943), Table 13; 1950 Census of Population: Michigan, Vol. 1, Part 24 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953), Table 77; 1960 Census of Population: Michigan, Vol. 1, Part 24 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963), Table 122; 1970 Census of Population: Michigan, Vol. 1, Part 24 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973), Table 171; 1980 Census of Population: Michigan, Vol. 1, Part 24 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983), Table 219; 1990 Census of Population and Housing: Equal Employment Opportunity File, on CD-ROM (Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992). Data from 1990 includes the entire Experienced Civilian Labor Force.
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