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The establishment of Vanport coincided with an unprecedented influx of African-Americans into Oregon, attracted to work in newly federally-desegregated wartime defense industries. Due to exclusionary racial laws , the state had a population of fewer than 1,800 Black people in 1940; by 1946 more than 15,000 lived in the Portland area, mostly in ...
This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.
The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; [1] [circular reference] and Detroit, Michigan. [2] About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oregon. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Portland is the only city where such newspapers are known to have been published. [1] The first was the Portland New Age, founded as The New Age in 1896. [2]
The following is a list of United States cities, towns, and census designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is non-Hispanic African American/Black alone as of the 2020 U.S. Census.
The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. [1] The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
In 2016 around 38,000 African Americans lived in Portland with over 10,000 of them having to move to the outskirts from the city due to gentrification. [20] In Portland the gentrification of the historically black neighborhood Albina has caused conflict between long-time black residents and new white residents. [ 20 ]
African-American people in Oregon politics (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "African Americans in Oregon" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.