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  2. History of African Americans in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Black Detroiters are black or African American residents of Detroit.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Black or African Americans living in Detroit accounted for 79.1% of the total population, or approximately 532,425 people as of 2017 estimates. [2]

  3. 1943 Detroit race riot - Wikipedia

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    In 1941, Detroit's Black population numbered nearly 150,000 of the total population of 1,623,452. This total population would reach nearly 2 million by 1943, absorbing more than 400,000 whites and some 50,000 black migrants, mostly from the American South.

  4. Demographic history of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    During the first wave of the Great Migration, thousands of African Americans settled in Detroit, as part of the total of 1.5 million black people who left the South in the first half of the 20th century looking for opportunities in the Northeast and Midwest. [11] In 1910, about 6,000 black people lived in the city. [12]

  5. 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]

  6. Ethnic groups in Metro Detroit - Wikipedia

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    In 2002 Detroit had 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of its population and making it the city with the largest African-American population in Michigan. [40] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people. [ 2 ]

  7. History of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    At this time, the hardships of life in the Jim Crow South and the promise of manufacturing jobs in the North brought African Americans to Detroit in large numbers in the Great Migration. This massive influx of workers and their families caused Detroit's population to soar from 265,000 to 1.5 million between 1900 and 1930 and pushed the city's ...

  8. 1967 Detroit riot - Wikipedia

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    In the early 20th century, when African Americans migrated to Detroit in the Great Migration, the city experienced a rapidly increasing population and a shortage of housing. African Americans encountered strong discrimination in housing. Both racial covenants and unspoken agreements among whites kept black people out of certain neighborhoods ...

  9. Category:African-American history in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    History of African Americans in Detroit; 0–9. 1919 Detroit Stars season; 1920 Detroit Stars season; 1921 Detroit Stars season; 1922 Detroit Stars season;