African Americans in Alabama |
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| 1,288,159 (2020) |
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| Bullock County, Dallas County, Greene County, Hale County, Lowndes County, Macon County, Marengo County, Montgomery County, Perry County, Sumter County, and Wilcox County. |
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| Southern American English, African American English, African American Vernacular English |
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| Historically Black Protestant |
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| Black Southerners, Alabama Creole people |
African Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the era from before statehood through the American Civil War, the emancipation, the Reconstruction era, a resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws, the Civil Right movement, and into recent decades. According to the 2020 Census, approximately 25.8% of Alabama's population is African American.
In the 2020 Census, 1,296,162 Alabama residents were identified as African American (of the total 5,024,279). In 11 of the state's 67 counties, African Americans make up more than 50% of the population: Greene (80.8%), Macon (79.1%), Sumter (72.9%), Bullock (71.4%), Wilcox (70.6%), Dallas (69.9%), Lowndes (69.8%), Perry (69.7%), Montgomery (57.0%), Hale (56.4%), and Marengo (52.7%). African Americans in the ten counties of Jefferson (281,326), Mobile (146,254), Montgomery (130,467), Madison (92,066), Tuscaloosa (69,088), Lee (39,570), Shelby (28,939), Houston (28,408), Dallas (26,899), and Talladega (26,439) make up more than 67% of all African Americans in the state.