Rumors, Race and Riots by Terry Ann Knopf

Author:Terry Ann Knopf [Knopf, Terry Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General, Violence in Society
ISBN: 9781351492454
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1975-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Increasing Urbanization

While the Depression may have slowed the migratory trend of blacks out of the South, World War II set the flow in motion again. More recently, the increased mechanization of agriculture and the expansion of industrial employment in northern and western cities has continued to stimulate the emigration of blacks, although at a less dramatic rate. From 1960 to 1963, the annual out-migration of blacks from the South dropped to 78,000; but it jumped to over 125,000 between 1963 and 1966. As of 1960, 48 percent of the U.S. black population lived outside the South. Equally important, this growth occurred in the central cities of the larger metropolitan areas. According to the Census Bureau, in 1966 almost 70 percent of all blacks in 1966 lived in metropolitan areas. Unfortunately, at that time most cities were ill-equipped, ill-prepared, and less than wholeheartedly committed to dealing with the conditions inherent in expanding ghettos. Poverty, discrimination, overcrowding, the failure to create new jobs, inferior education, poor housing, inadequate health facilities and other minimum services were miserable facts of life. The bitterness, rage and frustration so keenly felt by many blacks, especially young people, greatly increased the possibility that the cities would explode at some point. Indeed, the Lemberg Center’s three-year report confirmed that the recent outbreak of disorders was essentially an urban phenomenon; they occurred most often in the largest cities, those with the highest proportion of black residents and low-income areas. The report concluded as follows: “The disorder phenomenon, then, is more likely to be related to the quality and character of urban life as experienced by poor youth rather than to summertime boredom or thrill-seeking.”2

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