Number.

Percent Percent of total of classified.

classified.
-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.