Colored and white classification compared.  Number.  Percent Percent
          
                                                of total of
          
                                                classified. classified.
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Total colored and white registered: 
  June 5, 1917, to Sept. 11, 1918 10,640,846 100.00 -----
    Total colored registered 1,078,331 10.13 100.00
      Class I 556,917 ----- 51.65
      Deferred classes 521,414 ----- -----
    Total white registered 9,562,515 89.87 100.00
      Class I 3,110,659 ----- 32.53
      Deferred classes 6,451,856 ----- -----
Percentage accepted for service on calls before Dec. 15, 1917 (report for 1917). 
                                  Colored ----- ----- 36.23
                                  White ----- ----- 24.75

It will be seen that a much higher percentage of Negroes were accepted for service than of white men.  It is true that enlistments which were permitted white men but denied Negroes, depleted the whites eligible to Class I to some extent.  Probably there were more Negro delinquents in proportion to their numbers in the south than white delinquents.  The conditions under which they lived would account for that.  Delinquents, under the regulations, were placed in Class 1.  Then there is the undoubted fact that the Negro sought and was granted fewer exemptions on the ground of dependency.  Many Negroes in the south, where the rate of pay was low, were put in Class I on the ground that their allotment and allowances while in the army, would furnish an equivalent support to their dependents.  But whatever the reason, the great fact stands out that a much greater percentage of colored were accepted for service than white men.  The following table gives the colored and white inductions by states: 

Total colored Colored Colored Per
and white registrants, Percentage inducted Percent of
registrants, June 5, of colored June 5, colored
June 5, 1917, 1917, to and white 1917, to registrants.
to Sept. 11, Sept. 11, registrants.  Nov. 11,
1918. 1918. 1918.
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---------------------------- United States 10,640,846 1,078,331 10.13 367,710 34.10
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Alabama 206,210 81,963 39.75 25,874 31.57 Arizona 40,179 295 .73 77