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Before the ghetto riot of 1967, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent. It was not despairing that fueled the riot. It was the riot which marked the beginning of the decline of Detroit to its current state of despair.
This trend of population decline did not change in the following 30 years, and by 2010, the population of Detroit had decreased by about 60%. [15] The black population of Detroit peaked at over 3/4 of a million between 1980 and 2000, and then black flight began, and between 2000 and 2020 over 1/3 of all black and white residents left Detroit ...
The decline of population and employment opportunities in Detroit had been going on for decades prior to the bankruptcy filing. Detroit’s population declined from 2 million in 1950 to 714,000 in 2010. [20] Jobs followed the population, as over two-thirds of businesses in Detroit closed between 1972 and 2015. [21]
“It was the most infamous symbol of Detroit’s decline, the international poster child of ‘ruin [photography],’” Dan Austin, Michigan Central’s spokesperson who has long chronicled the ...
Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, had seen an exodus of people since the 1950s. Census Bureau estimates: Detroit population rises after decades of decline, South dominates growth Skip to main ...
Detroit (/ d ɪ ˈ t r ɔɪ t / ⓘ dih-TROYT, locally also / ˈ d iː t r ɔɪ t / DEE-troyt) [8] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city on the Canadian border and the county seat of Wayne County. Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, [9] making it the 26th-most populous city in ...
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a longtime Democrat, says he will run for Michigan governor as an independent in 2026. ... “I was born here. I grew up here. I watched the decline and I felt like I ...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing, job discrimination, and capital flight played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 race riot. Sugrue ...