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The state of Tennessee enacted 20 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1955, including six requiring school segregation, four which outlawed miscegenation, three which segregated railroads, two requiring segregation for public accommodations, and one which mandated segregation on streetcars.
The most common form of segregation in the northern states came from anti-miscegenation laws. [98] The state of Oregon went farther than even any of the Southern states, specifically excluding blacks from entering the state, or from owning property within it. School integration did not come about until the mid-1970s.
This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American. The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]
More than 80% of large metropolitan areas in the United States were more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990, ... Detroit is the most segregated city in the U.S., according to the report ...
Long Island, N.Y., remains one of the 10 most segregated places in America.
For Hispanics, the second most segregated racial group, the indices from 1980, 1990 and 2000 are 50.2, 50.0, and 50.9, respectively. [12] Hispanics are highly segregated in a number of cities, primarily in northern metropolitan areas. [8]
Cities on the list of the most segregated hospital markets include Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Denver. Of the top 50 most racially inclusive hospitals, Boston Medical Center Corporation is No. 1.
The demographics of these states changed markedly from the 1890s through the 1960s, as two waves of the Great Migration resulted in more than 6,500,000 African Americans to abandon the economically depressed, segregated Deep South in search of better employment opportunities and living conditions, first in Northern and Midwestern industrial ...