Metro Plates

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black New York: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the New York metro, Black residents number about 3.4 million and form 24% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 16% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black New York, a metro of about 3.4 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Atlanta: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Atlanta metro, Black residents number about 2 million and form 34% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 33% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Atlanta, a metro of about 2 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Washington: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Washington metro, Black residents number about 1.6 million and form 41% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 45% for the state as a whole on the…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Washington, a metro of about 1.6 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Houston: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Houston metro, Black residents number about 1.3 million and form 22% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Houston, a metro of about 1.3 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Dallas: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Dallas metro, Black residents number about 1.2 million and form 24% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Dallas, a metro of about 1.2 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Los Angeles: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Los Angeles metro, Black residents number about 1 million and form 8.6% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 6% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Los Angeles, a metro of about 1 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Detroit: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Detroit metro, Black residents number about 1 million and form 78% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 14% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Detroit, a metro of about 1 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Miami: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Miami metro, Black residents number about 1 million and form 17% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 16% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Miami, a metro of about 1 million Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Baltimore: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Baltimore metro, Black residents number about 850,000 and form 60% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 31% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Baltimore, a metro of about 850,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Chicago: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Chicago metro, Black residents number about 787,551 and form 28.7% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 14% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Chicago, a metro of about 787,551 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Philadelphia: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Philadelphia metro, Black residents number about 680,000 and form 44% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 11% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Philadelphia, a metro of about 680,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Las Vegas: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Las Vegas metro, Black residents number about 330,000 and form 14.5% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 10% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Las Vegas, a metro of about 330,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Charlotte: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Charlotte metro, Black residents number about 300,000 and form 35% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 22% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Charlotte, a metro of about 300,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Jacksonville: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Jacksonville metro, Black residents number about 295,000 and form 31% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 16% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Jacksonville, a metro of about 295,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Columbus: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Columbus metro, Black residents number about 275,000 and form 31% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Columbus, a metro of about 275,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Indianapolis: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Indianapolis metro, Black residents number about 260,000 and form 30% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 10% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Indianapolis, a metro of about 260,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Milwaukee: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Milwaukee metro, Black residents number about 245,000 and form 42% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 6% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Milwaukee, a metro of about 245,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black New Orleans: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the New Orleans metro, Black residents number about 230,000 and form 59% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 33% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black New Orleans, a metro of about 230,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Nashville: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Nashville metro, Black residents number about 195,000 and form 28% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 17% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Nashville, a metro of about 195,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Cleveland: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Cleveland metro, Black residents number about 185,000 and form 50% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Cleveland, a metro of about 185,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Boston: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Boston metro, Black residents number about 160,000 and form 24% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 8% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Boston, a metro of about 160,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Newark: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Newark metro, Black residents number about 160,000 and form 52% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 14% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Newark, a metro of about 160,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Kansas City: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Kansas City metro, Black residents number about 150,000 and form 30% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 11% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Kansas City, a metro of about 150,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black St.

In the St. Louis metro, Black residents number about 140,000 and form 46% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 11% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black St. Louis, a metro of about 140,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Birmingham: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Birmingham metro, Black residents number about 140,000 and form 71% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 26% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Birmingham, a metro of about 140,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Phoenix: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Phoenix metro, Black residents number about 125,000 and form 8% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 5% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Phoenix, a metro of about 125,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Jackson: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Jackson metro, Black residents number about 120,000 and form 79% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 38% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Jackson, a metro of about 120,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black San Antonio: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the San Antonio metro, Black residents number about 110,000 and form 8% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black San Antonio, a metro of about 110,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Oklahoma City: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs…

In the Oklahoma City metro, Black residents number about 110,000 and form 16% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 7% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Oklahoma City, a metro of about 110,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Richmond: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Richmond metro, Black residents number about 105,000 and form 46% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 19% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Richmond, a metro of about 105,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Tampa: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Tampa metro, Black residents number about 95,000 and form 26% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 16% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Tampa, a metro of about 95,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Austin: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Austin metro, Black residents number about 85,000 and form 9% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 13% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Austin, a metro of about 85,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Little Rock: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Little Rock metro, Black residents number about 85,000 and form 42% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 15% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Little Rock, a metro of about 85,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Orlando: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Orlando metro, Black residents number about 80,000 and form 27% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 16% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Orlando, a metro of about 80,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Sacramento: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Sacramento metro, Black residents number about 75,000 and form 14% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 6% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Sacramento, a metro of about 75,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Denver: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Denver metro, Black residents number about 65,000 and form 10% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 4% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Denver, a metro of about 65,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Seattle: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that make…

In the Seattle metro, Black residents number about 60,000 and form 8.5% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 4% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Seattle, a metro of about 60,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Columbia: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Columbia metro, Black residents number about 55,000 and form 41% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 27% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Columbia, a metro of about 55,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black Portland: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the Portland metro, Black residents number about 50,000 and form 8% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 2% for the state as a whole on the alone count…

This plate reads the movement record of Black Portland, a metro of about 50,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

This metro plate opens the Atlasmont file on Black San Diego: the population itself — its size, its share of the metro, and its distribution across the city and suburbs that…

In the San Diego metro, Black residents number about 105,000 and form 8% of the population on the alone-or-in-combination count — against 6% for the state as a whole on the alone…

This plate reads the movement record of Black San Diego, a metro of about 105,000 Black residents, against the currents that have reshaped Black geography in the present era.

Cincinnati holds about 135,000 Black residents — Black alone or in combination, roughly 44 percent of the Queen City — and about 290,000 across its tri-state metropolitan area.

Greensboro holds about 125,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, over two-fifths of its 301,000 people — and about 210,000 across the…

Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital, holds about 125,000 Black residents — a majority of its 227,000 people — and about 360,000 across the metropolitan area.

Montgomery holds about 125,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly three-fifths of its 200,000 people — and about 155,000 across the…

Augusta holds about 105,000 Black residents within the consolidated city-county — Black alone or in combination, a clear majority of its 200,000 people — and about 150,000…

Shreveport holds about 105,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, a majority of its 188,000 people — and about 145,000 across the metropolitan…

Buffalo holds about 100,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a third of its 278,000 people, one of the highest shares of any Northern…

The Hampton Roads metropolitan area holds about 500,000 Black residents — roughly 28 percent of its 1.8 million people — the largest Black population of any American metro…

Durham holds about 95,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, well over a third of its 290,000 people — and about 150,000 across the metropolitan area.

Fayetteville holds about 95,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, over two-fifths of its 210,000 people — and about 135,000 across the…

Mobile holds about 95,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly half of its 187,000 people — and about 140,000 across the metropolitan area.

Winston-Salem holds about 90,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a third of its 250,000 people — and about 130,000 across the…

Savannah holds about 88,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, a majority of its 148,000 people — and about 125,000 across the metropolitan area.

Rochester holds about 85,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly two-fifths of its 211,000 people — and about 170,000 across the…

Toledo holds about 75,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, over a quarter of its 268,000 people — and about 95,000 across the metropolitan area.

Pittsburgh holds about 70,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a quarter of its 303,000 people — and about 200,000 across the…

Tulsa holds about 65,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a sixth of its 413,000 people — and about 105,000 across the metropolitan area.

Omaha holds about 60,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly an eighth of its 486,000 people — and about 95,000 across the metropolitan area.

Dayton holds about 58,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, over two-fifths of its 138,000 people — and about 100,000 across the metropolitan area.

Flint holds about 55,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, a majority of its 81,000 people — and about 82,000 across Genesee County.

Greenville holds about 55,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, nearly a quarter of its 70,000 people in the compact city — and about 155,000…

Lexington holds about 46,000 Black residents within the consolidated city-county — Black alone or in combination, roughly one resident in seven — and about 58,000 across the…

Wichita holds about 45,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly an eighth of its 390,000 people — and about 70,000 across the metropolitan area.

Syracuse holds about 45,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, nearly a third of its 149,000 people — and about 85,000 across the metropolitan area.

Grand Rapids holds about 38,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly one resident in five — and about 60,000 across the metropolitan area.

Knoxville holds about 32,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a sixth of its 190,000 people — and about 52,000 across the metropolitan area.

Albany holds about 29,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly three in ten of its 99,000 people — and about 95,000 across the Capital Region.

Tucson holds about 29,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, about one resident in twenty in the Old Pueblo — and about 46,000 across the…

Charleston presents the most dramatic dispersal data in this section.

Providence holds about 28,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly a seventh of its 191,000 people — and about 105,000 across a metropolitan…

Lansing holds about 27,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, nearly a quarter of its 113,000 people — and about 45,000 across the metropolitan area.

Des Moines holds about 25,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, roughly an eighth of its 214,000 people — and about 50,000 across the…

El Paso holds about 24,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, a small share of its 680,000 people in one of America's most Mexican-American major…

Wilmington's Black community, roughly eighteen thousand people in a port city of about seventy thousand at the Cape Fear River's mouth, some twenty-five percent of the…

Memphis is the South's great Black-majority city: roughly 64 percent of its 633,000 residents are Black, the deepest majority of any large city in the South and second among…

Hartford holds about 45,000 Black residents within the city — Black alone or in combination, nearly two-fifths of its 121,000 people, among the highest Black shares of any…

Fort Wayne's Black community numbers approximately 42,000 people — about 15% of the Summit City's 265,000 residents — the second-largest Black population in Indiana after…

South Bend's Black community numbers approximately 27,000 people — about 26% of the city's 103,000 residents, the highest Black share of any mid-size Indiana city — and it…

Springfield's Black community numbers approximately 33,000 people — about 21% of the city's 155,000 residents — making the birthplace of basketball home to one of the largest…

Worcester's Black community numbers approximately 27,000 people — about 13% of the city's 206,000 residents — the second-largest city in New England holding one of its larger…

New Haven's Black community numbers approximately 42,000 people — about 31% of the Elm City's 134,000 residents — one of the largest Black population shares of any city in New…

Bridgeport's Black community numbers approximately 52,000 people — about 35% of the city's 148,000 residents — making Connecticut's largest city also its largest Black…

Akron's Black community numbers approximately 59,000 people — about 31% of the city's 190,000 residents — built in two great waves by the tire industry that made Akron the…

Youngstown's Black community numbers approximately 26,000 people — about 44% of the city's 60,000 residents — in the city whose name became the American language's shorthand…

Harrisburg's Black community numbers approximately 26,000 people — a majority, about 52%, of Pennsylvania's capital city — one of the few state capitals in America where Black…

Erie's Black community numbers approximately 16,000 people — about 17% of Pennsylvania's only lakefront city, 95,000 residents — built first by the lake's maritime and railroad…

Beaumont's Black community numbers approximately 55,000 people — about 48% of the city's 115,000 residents — in the Southeast Texas oil city where Spindletop's 1901 gusher…

Pine Bluff's Black community numbers approximately 31,000 people — about 76% of the city's 41,000 residents — one of the highest Black shares of any city in America, in a Delta…

Trenton's Black community numbers roughly 44,000 people — about 48% of the city's 91,000 residents, its largest population, in a capital city with a two-century paradox: the…

Killeen's Black community numbers roughly 60,000 people — about 37% of the city's 160,000 residents — in a city that exists for one reason: Fort Cavazos, one of the largest…

Eatonville's Black community numbers roughly 1,700 people — about 72% of the town's 2,300 residents — in a place of five square miles' fraction whose significance is wildly out…

Mound Bayou's Black community numbers roughly 1,400 people — about 98% of the town's residents, as close to a wholly Black municipality as the census records anywhere — in a…

Prince George's County's Black community numbers roughly 590,000 people — about 62% of the county's 950,000 residents — in the Maryland suburbs east of Washington, D.C., and…

Gary's Black community numbers roughly 53,000 people — about 79% of the city's 68,000 residents — in the Indiana steel city on Lake Michigan's south shore, thirty miles from…

Benton Harbor's Black community numbers roughly 8,000 people — about 87% of the small city's 9,000 residents — on the St.

DeKalb County's Black community numbers roughly 410,000 people — about 54% of some 765,000 residents — making this Atlanta suburb, by itself, one of the largest Black…

Macon's Black community numbers roughly 82,000 people — about 54% of the consolidated city-county's 156,000 residents — at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, dead center in…

Albany's Black community numbers roughly 48,000 people — about 71% of Dougherty County's 85,000 residents in the city and its immediate ground — in the heart of southwest…

Tallahassee's Black community numbers roughly 71,000 people — about 36% of the city's 197,000 residents, and a larger share of surrounding Leon County's civic life — in…

Vicksburg's Black community numbers roughly 14,000 people — about 68% of the river city's 21,000 residents — on the bluff where the Yazoo meets the Mississippi, at the Delta's…

Wilmington's Black community numbers roughly 41,000 people — about 58% of the city's 71,000 residents — in the largest city of the nation's second-smallest state, where one…

East St. Louis's Black community numbers roughly 17,000 people — about 95% of the city's 18,000 residents, among the highest shares of any city in this atlas — directly across the…

Greenville's Black community numbers roughly 23,000 people — about 82% of the city's 28,000 residents — in the largest city of the Mississippi Delta, the river port the region…

Hattiesburg's Black community numbers roughly 18,000 people — about 52% of the city's 35,000 residents, in the Pine Belt's Hub City where the timber roads and rail lines of…

Gulfport's Black community numbers roughly 27,000 people — about 37% of the city's 72,000 residents — in the Mississippi Gulf Coast's largest city, a working port town built on…

Springfield's Black community numbers roughly 23,000 people — about 20% of the Illinois capital's 114,000 residents — in the city Abraham Lincoln called home, where Black…

Peoria's Black community numbers roughly 30,000 people — about 27% of the river city's 111,000 residents — in the Illinois town whose name became American shorthand for the…

Rockford's Black community numbers roughly 33,000 people — about 23% of the Forest City's 147,000 residents — in the northern Illinois manufacturing town that once fastened the…

Pensacola's Black community numbers roughly 17,000 people — about 32% of the city's 54,000 residents — in the oldest European settlement in the continental United States, where…

Tuscaloosa's Black community numbers roughly 32,000 people — about 32% of the city's 100,000 residents — in the west-Alabama river town where the state's flagship university…

Monroe's Black community numbers roughly 31,000 people — about 64% of the city's 48,000 residents, an outright majority — in the northeast Louisiana river town that faces the…

Waco's Black community numbers roughly 38,000 people — about 27% of the city's 140,000 residents — in the Central Texas river city known to the world for a university, a…

Lake Charles's Black community numbers roughly 40,000 people — about 48% of the city's 85,000 residents, on the edge of majority — in the southwest Louisiana port where the…

Tyler's Black community numbers roughly 31,000 people — about 30% of the city's 105,000 residents — in the East Texas piney-woods city the brochures call the Rose Capital of…

Longview's Black community numbers roughly 24,000 people — about 30% of the city's 82,000 residents — in the East Texas railroad-and-oil city forty miles from Tyler, its sister…

Amarillo's Black community numbers roughly 14,000 people — about 7% of the city's 200,000 residents — the smallest share in this book's Texas file, in the Panhandle capital of…

Lubbock's Black community numbers roughly 22,000 people — about 8% of the city's 265,000 residents — in the South Plains cotton capital, the largest city of the Llano Estacado…

Valdosta's Black community numbers roughly 25,000 people — about 45% of the city's 55,000 residents — in the South Georgia wiregrass capital at the Florida line, the Azalea…

Corpus Christi's Black community is one of the Gulf Coast's oldest, rooted in the port and the refineries that made this Texas city an industrial crossroads, and one of its…

Albuquerque's Black community, some twenty thousand people in a city of about five hundred sixty thousand, is one of the interior West's oldest small Black populations…

Colorado Springs, a city of about four hundred eighty thousand at the foot of Pikes Peak, holds one of the Mountain West's most substantial Black communities, roughly…

Fresno's Black community, on the order of forty thousand people in a city of about five hundred forty thousand, is the largest in California's San Joaquin Valley, rooted in the…

Bakersfield's Black community, roughly twenty-eight thousand people in a city of about four hundred thousand, about seven percent, grew up with the two industries that define…

Abilene's Black community, roughly seven thousand people in a city of about one hundred twenty-five thousand, some five to six percent, is a West Texas community built by the…

Midland and Odessa, the Permian Basin's twin cities, hold a combined Black population on the order of twenty-two thousand across a metro of some three hundred forty thousand…

Athens, Georgia, is a college town with a Black community older than the university: roughly twenty-eight thousand Black residents in a county of about one hundred thirty…

Clarksville, Tennessee's fifth-largest city, sits on the Kentucky line with a Black population of roughly thirty-eight thousand in a city of about one hundred seventy thousand…

Stockton's Black community, roughly forty thousand people in a San Joaquin County metropolis of about eight hundred thousand, around eleven percent of the city of Stockton…

Reno's Black community is one of the smallest in this atlas, roughly seven thousand people in a metro of about five hundred thousand, barely two percent, in a city whose fame…

Spokane's Black community, roughly seven thousand people in a city of about two hundred thirty thousand, some three percent, is the Inland Northwest's largest, a railroad and…

Tacoma's Black community, roughly twenty-two thousand people in a city of about two hundred twenty thousand, around ten percent, is the South Sound's center of Black life, a…

Boise's Black community is the smallest in this atlas by share, on the order of three thousand people in a city of about two hundred thirty-five thousand, barely over one…

Billings' Black community numbers on the order of fifteen hundred people in Montana's largest city, around one percent of its hundred eighty thousand, and the state's Black…

Sioux Falls' Black community, roughly ten thousand people in a South Dakota metro of about three hundred thousand, around five percent of the city itself, is among the…

Fargo's Black community, roughly eight thousand people in a North Dakota metro of about two hundred sixty thousand, around five percent of the city itself, mirrors Sioux Falls…

Selma, the seat of Dallas County in west-central Alabama, is a city of about 17,800 people, roughly 82 percent of them Black — one of the highest Black population shares of any…

Bessemer is a city of about 25,500 people in Jefferson County, Alabama, some fifteen miles southwest of downtown Birmingham — and about 76 percent of its residents are Black…

Prichard is a city of about 19,300 people in Mobile County, Alabama, directly adjoining the city of Mobile on its northwest — and about 90 percent of its residents are Black, a…

Tuskegee is a city of about 9,400 people, the seat of Macon County in east-central Alabama, and roughly 84 percent of its residents are Black.

Meridian is a city of about 33,600 people in Lauderdale County, east Mississippi, close to the Alabama line — and about 65 percent of its residents are Black, making it one of…

Clarksdale is a city of about 14,900 people, the seat of Coahoma County in the heart of the Mississippi Delta — and about 81 percent of its residents are Black.

Greenwood is a city of about 14,500 people, the seat of Leflore County where the Mississippi Delta's flat cotton land meets the hills along the Yazoo River — and about 74…

Natchez is a city of about 14,200 people on the high bluffs of the Mississippi River in Adams County — the oldest permanent European settlement on the river, founded by the…

Petersburg is an independent city of about 33,200 people on the Appomattox River in south-central Virginia, twenty-five miles south of Richmond — and about 74 percent of its…

Danville is an independent city of about 42,600 people on the Dan River in Virginia's Southside, hard against the North Carolina line — and about 52 percent of its residents…

Sumter is a city of about 43,500 people, the seat of Sumter County in the Midlands of South Carolina — and about 48 percent of its residents are Black, a near-majority within…

Camden is a city of about 71,800 people on the New Jersey bank of the Delaware River, directly across from Philadelphia — and about 42 percent of its residents are Black, a…