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This is a timeline of African-American history, ... 1930s and 1940s. ... September 1–2 – Race rioting in Hartford, CT and Camden, NJ. ...
By 1490, more than 3,000 slaves a year were transported to Portugal and Spain from Africa [1] African Americans made up almost one-fifth of the United States population in 1790, but their percentage of the total U.S. population declined in almost every U.S. census until 1930. [5]
By the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the city's African-American population had increased to 120,000. In 1900–01, Chicago had a total population of 1,754,473. [45] By 1920, the city had added more than 1 million residents.
The 2010 U.S. census showed that 27.4% of all African Americans lived under the poverty line, the highest percentage of any other ethnic group in the United States. [171] Therefore, in predominantly African American areas, otherwise known as 'ghettos', the amount of money available for education is extremely low.
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.
First and Second Great Migrations shown through changes in African American share of population in major U.S. cities, 1916–1930 and 1940–1970 The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the other three regions of the United States.
First African-American (mixed-race) to play in the Presidents Cup: Tiger Woods [Note 23] First African American to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol: Jacob Chestnut [289] [290] (See also: 2005, 2019) First African-American Space Shuttle Commander Frederick D. Gregory
The Chicago Black Renaissance was influenced by two major social and economic conditions: the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The Great Migration brought tens of thousands of African Americans from the south to Chicago. Between 1910 and 1930 the African American population increased from 44,000 to 230,000. [8]