Alabama’s older population – persons 60 years and older – numbers 769,880 according to
Census 2000, which is the most recent year for which U.S. Census Bureau data is available.
They represent 17.3 percent of Alabama’s total population...
An Address delivered by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, before the National Afro-American Council in McCauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., Thursday Evening, July, 2, 1903.