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400 years positive
By William R. Murrell, III
How did black people get to Boston?
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Unwilling West Indian blacks migrated to Boston in 1638 aboard the ship "Desire." Later, 200 "colored people" were counted in 1676. By the year 1720, two thousand black "colored" Boston area residents were counted by authorities. (Source: Black Bostonians, author James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, published by Holmes and Meir (ISBN 0-8419-1379-X) in 1979.1999.)
By the year 2000, A third of the Massachusetts population is of foreign stock. Of the total total population, 55.2% identified with a single ancestry group, 33% with the multi-ancestry group, and 11.7% were not specified. Of the single ancestry groups, the six leading groups were: Irish (21%), English (14.5%), Italian (13.6%), French (9.9%), Portuguese (6%) and Polish (5.1%). In 2000, Boston area African-Americans comprised 5.4%, Hispanics 6.8%, Native Americans .2%, and Asians are 3.8% of the State.
Whomp, there it is!
African-Americans have been in Boston for 400 years---
5.4% of 6 Million in Massachusetts represents a black African-American, Afro-American, African ancestral population of about 300,000 state wide, whereas 125,000 plus live throughout the Greater Boston area.
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2 of 2 people found the following comment helpful:
Dorchester Community
By Tony Williams
A message to the Youth of Dorchester, " Please Young Peole of Color, stop killing each other" I work in Dorchester with young people who have become disabled from an act of violance. I too use a wheelchair and if you think the streets are hard try rolling in my chair for a while. What I am saying is, I do not want to read about any of you getting shot and now have to live your life in a wheelchair or worse...
Tony Williams
Multi-Cultural Independent Living Center of Boston
(Dorchester MA)
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