4 of America’s most segregated cities are in Alabama, report says
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 23, 2021
A statue of Rosa Parks in downtown Montgomery, close to the spot where she boarded a bus before her arrest on Dec. 1, 1955, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
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A recent report named four of Alabama’s largest cities as the most segregated cities in America.
The analysis was done by 24/7 Wall St., which looked at data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population and Housing Estimates Program. The website also looked at the percentage of Black residents who lived in census tracts where at least 50% of the population is Black.
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