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...percent of all private household workers...
...percent of all farm laborers...
...other attractive job categories, the present rate of progress would leave Negroes very far from equality. By 1985, only 3.8 percent of all managers and proprietors would be nonwhite. That is just 420,000 people, compared to an equality target figure of 1.33 million...
...fully equip Negroes to compete for the jobs they would reach with continued present progress, 68.0 percent of all Negroes should be high school graduates by 1985; 14.7 percent should be college graduates. (see Table 4). To equip Negroes for full economic equality, 74.9 percent should be high school graduates, 16.7 percent college graduates. To be sure, these figures assume that every Negro must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short...
...educational achievements of our Negro population are rising rapidly (see Table 5). In 1952, only 17 percent of nonwhites had a complete high school education. By 1965, 38 percent had completed high school, and among the current young people, slightly more than half now finish high school. The number of college graduates is also rising rapidly. Among whites, the gains are less dramatic, so there has been a catchup in Negro educational achievement...