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A comparison of the White, non-Hispanic vs. non-white population in the Pittsburgh CSA vs. the entire U.S., based on 2020 and 2016 U.S. Census reports [5] Source: US Census Bureau, County Population by Characteristics: 2010–2016 [6] Median household income by county subdivision in 2012-16 [7] Median age by county in the area as of 2010-2016 [6] Population by generation in the area in 2010 ...
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
The culture of Pittsburgh stems from the city's long history as a center for cultural philanthropy, as well as its rich ethnic traditions.In the 19th and 20th centuries, wealthy businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry J. Heinz, Henry Clay Frick, and nonprofit organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation donated millions of dollars to create educational and cultural institutions.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work created the Center on Race and Social Problems to confront what W.E.B. Du Bois, in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, described as “the problem of the twentieth century … the color line," and the Race in America conference was held to bring social work to the front and center of the ...
The City of Pittsburgh annexed an additional area of land that is now the city's Overbrook neighborhood. Today, only 400 of the township's original 10,550 acres (42.7 km 2) remain. Historians calculate that if Baldwin Township had never been divided, it would now be the second largest community in Allegheny County, with a population of over ...
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The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. [1]