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Title: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE GREATER DC AREA: 1930 TO THE PRESENT
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: During the second half of the 20th century DC’s African American population migrated rapidly eastward, including beyond the city’s boundaries into Maryland. Now, eight decades later, the African American population lives farther east, centered in southeast DC and western Prince George’s County. The distribution of African Americans across the region has changed sharply from the checkerboard pattern in the early half of the 1900s to the geographic concentration of today. We discuss three time periods characterized by different residential locations of the African American population: The Wake of the New Deal from 1930-1950, The Rise of Chocolate City and Urban Growth from 1950-1990, and White Flight Reversal from 1990-2010.
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Authors: Brooks, Leah; Valadez, Caitlyn
Publisher: GW Institute of Public Policy
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Race and Ethnicity
Countries: United States