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Originally Posted by Nantais
I've already heard about the Great Migration but I didn't think it was so important. I mean, it's a really huge growth in Black population between 1950 and 1980. Also, why was it apparently more important in Détroit than in other northeastern american cities ? And, on another scale, why Blacks moved predominantly to the inner city and not to some suburbs ? Why did it happen essentially after the WW2 and not earlier, because I guess it was already not that cool to be a Black in the South in the late 1800's or in the early 1900's ?
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Use three key words.
Detroit [or any major northern city for that matter],
Blockbusting, and
White flight.
Google them, research well and you should get an answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight