Black Detroit has a very interesting history. African Americans migrated to Detroit in very large numbers during the "Great Black Migrations". The largest percentage came from Alabama, while many others came from Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. This increased Detroit's black population from under 6,000 in 1910 to 120,000 in 1930. The city of Detroit once
boasted the largest Black middle class in America. However after the riots in 1943 and 1967, and school desegragation, the white population left in such large numbers that today Detroit is the largest, blackest city in the nation. It is also the most segregated of all large cities. With the decline of America’s automobile industry the skilled high paying manufacturing jobs began disappearing.
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Black Detroit, MI Detailed ACS Census Report for 2009
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