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  2. Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [ 1] It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial ...

  3. Black flight - Wikipedia

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    Black flight is a term applied to the migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas in the United States to suburbs and newly constructed homes on the outer edges of cities. [1] While more attention has been paid to this since the 1990s, the movement of black people to the suburbs has been underway for some ...

  4. Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a ...

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    Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her ...

  5. New Great Migration - Wikipedia

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    The New Great Migration is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 60-year trend of black migration within the United States. Since 1970, deindustrialization of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the "New South" with lower costs of living, desire to reunite ...

  6. History of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    The history of St. Louis began with the settlement of the area by Native American mound builders who lived as part of the Mississippian culture from the 9th century to the 15th century, followed by other migrating tribal groups. Starting in the late 17th century, French explorers arrived. Spain took over in 1763 and a trading company led by ...

  7. Missouri man is free from prison after a judge overturned his ...

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    July 30, 2024 at 5:30 PM. ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man was freed from prison Tuesday after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars, despite the state attorney general ...

  8. Black Mafia Family - Wikipedia

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    The Black Mafia Family ( BMF) is a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States. It was founded in 1985, in Southwest Detroit by brothers Demetrius Edward "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry Lee "Southwest Tee" Flenory. By 2000 it had established cocaine distribution sales throughout the United States through its Los ...

  9. How Black families can build generational wealth ... - AOL

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    Of Black and white Americans between the ages of 47 and 70 in 2019, only 13 percent of Black Americans reported receiving an inheritance or wealth transfer, compared with nearly 35 percent of ...