Recent Changes

By the end of World War II, housing presure in inner cities and African American neighborhoods was enormous.
80% of the black population was squeezed into about 5 square miles, units were said to be "unbelievably crowded".
ever before. {sundown_town.jpg} Anti- African American Sign (Click Picture for Source)
Levitt & Son were the largest home builder in America after World War II, for two decades after the war "The Levitt Organization" refused to sell to the blacks.
1,500 houses out of 186,000 houses that were built in Detroit in the 1940's were available to the blacks.

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Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: a Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New York: New, 2005. Print.
"National Youth Gang Center (2009)". National Youth Gang Survey Analysis. Retrieved [date] from http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis
Sep 2010. <http://law.jrank.org/pages/12137/Race-Ethnicity-Reasons-high-minority-crime-rates.html>. http://law.jrank.org/pages/12137/Race-Ethnicity-Reasons-high-minority-crime-rates.html.
US Census Bureau, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=10035&_cityTown=10035&_state=04000US36&_zip=10035&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y

In New York City, 48.7% of the population is African American or Black, even though they only make up 12.3% of the United States as a whole.
White Americans make up 20.8% of New York's population, while they compose 75.1% of the entire United States.
{new-york-city.jpg} New York City (Click Picture for Source)
As one can see, there is a higher concentration of African American's in the cities, and more White Americans populate the cities and rural areas. This fact also leads to other areas of imbalance, such as crime rates and gang violence statistics.
In larger cities, the gang violence rates (as of 2004-2006) are second highest in African American's, coming in at 38.4%.