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The African-American middle class consists of African-Americans who have middle-class status within the American class structure. It is a societal level within the African-American community that primarily began to develop in the early 1960s,[1][2] when the ongoing Civil Rights Movement[3] led to the outlawing of de jure racial segregation. The African American middle class exists throughout the United States, particularly in the Northeast and in the South, with the largest contiguous majority black middle-class neighborhoods being in the Washington, DC suburbs in Maryland.[4] The African American middle class is also prevalent in the Atlanta, Baltimore MetropolitanCharlotte, Houston,Memphis MetropolitanDallas, Los Angeles, New Orleans,Philadelphia MetropolitanNew York, San Antonio Detroit Metropolitan and Chicago areas.[5][6]
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- ^ Landry, Bart (1988). The new Black middle class (Paperback ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520064652.
- ^ "Prince George's County's belt of high-income majority Black Census tracts really is unique". November 6, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ Graves, Earl G. Sr. (2016-12-08). "Join us in Houston, America's Next Great Black Business Mecca". Black Enterprise. Archived from the original on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "San Antonio makes top 10 list in best cities for Black professionals, #1 in Texas".