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Black Americans
Title: Black Americans
Category: History
Details: Words: 2582 | Pages: 11.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Black Americans
Black Americans
Black Americans are those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, coloured, Negro, Afro-American, and African-American, as well as black.
The black population of the United States has grown from three-quarters of a million in 1790 to nearly 30 million in 1990. As a percentage of the total population, blacks declined from 19.3 …showed first 75 words of 2582 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2582 total…in large urban areas and more prevalent in the North than in the South. One method adopted to overcome such segregation was to bus children across school district lines in order to achieve racial balance in the schools. This caused major controversy and led to instances of violent opposition . The overwhelming majority of black children now attend formally integrated schools, although they may have little contact with white pupils even within the schools.
By Linn
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