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Originally Posted by Crawford
Boston Edison has been majority black since the 1960's, at least. I've read a lot about the Detroit 1967 riots/rebellion, and that specific neighborhood was pretty solidly black years before the unrest. I believe it transitioned from Jewish to black in the 1950's. Boston Edison, Alden Park and Russell Woods were the elite black neighborhoods in the 1960's.
Boston Edison is probably whiter now than in the 1960-2010 era.
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Yes, it's whiter now for sure than it was in the 1980s-2000. But the neighborhood has always been relatively mixed. Berry Gordy, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and others associated with the music industry lived there in 1960s and 1970s. I would guess that it became majority black in the 1980s, but it was never 100% black. I wouldn't be shocked if the core blocks are actually predominantly white now.
Detroit doesn't have any areas like Harlem, Bed Stuy, or Fort Greene that were first gentrified by black yuppies. The development patterns in Detroit are too suburban focused so most middle class black people either end up in one of the suburbanish upscale neighborhoods inside the city, or in the suburbs themselves.