Posted Apr 6, 2023, 7:42 PM
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At the time, they (mainly) meant African American. They did mention the older West Indian community though. In the 1920s about a quarter of the black population was West Indian. By the 1960s the share that was West Indian origin was probably 10% as the Second Great Migration increased the AA population. But then Caribbean immigration took off again. Today I think NYC blacks are roughly evenly split between AA and West Indian.
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