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The Thompsons, a Black couple, rented to the Dongs, a Chinese American family, 85 years ago when nobody else would. Now, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students because they ...
The Dong family is selling the historic home and donating $5 million to Black college students — but they wanted the Thompson family to tour the storied home first.
Decades later the Dongs have found a way to say thanks with a $5-million gift. A Black couple defied racism by renting to a Chinese family. Now comes $5 million in thanks
The California population of African Americans grew slowly, alongside other minorities, with only 21,645 African American residents in 1910 compared to 2 million white residents. [64] Post-World War II, African Americans boosted their population enormously in California.
California has 2.3 million African Americans as of 2010, the largest population of black or African Americans of the Western US states, [66] and the 5th largest black population in the United States. African Americans are concentrated in Greater Los Angeles, the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Sacramento region. [67]
In the Second Great Migration, not only the Northeast and Midwest continued to be the destination of more than 5 million African Americans, but also the West as well, where cities like Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle offered skilled jobs in the defense industry. [2]
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In 1980, Oakland, California had a 47% Black population (the 20th-century peak number); and by the 2010 census, Oakland had a 27% Black population due to out of state migration and other factors. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The Black population has declined since the 1980s, and since then the entire San Francisco Bay Area has experienced more affluent ...