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- A rapid racial change occurred in Gary during the late 20th century. These population changes resulted in political change which reflected the racial demographics of Gary: the Black and Hispanic share of the city's population increased from 21% in 1930, 39% in 1960, to 53% in 1970.
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Jan 4, 2024 · The peak population of Gary was in 1960, when its population was 178,320. In 1960, Gary was the 70th largest city in the US; now its fallen to the 552nd largest city in the US. Gary is currently 61.7% smaller than it was in 1960. How quickly is Gary shrinking? Gary has shrunk 33.3% since the year 2000.
Scope: population of Indiana and Gary. Gary. Indiana. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% Count White 1 Hispanic 2 Black Asian Mixed 1 Other 1 11.7% 9,124 4.7% 3,676 81.5% 63.4k 0.4% 274 1.3% 1,045 0.4% 292. Count. number of members in ethno-racial group. 1 non-Hispanic 2 excluding black and Asian Hispanics. Relative Race and Ethnicity #2.
Feb 22, 2018 · Black History and Gary, Indiana: Saluting the City of Firsts. February 22, 2018. 1:56 pm. By Vernon A. Williams, Gary Crusader. (The last of a three-part series) Gary, Indiana is irrefutably a ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Today, the population, now largely African American, has shrunk to less than half of its 1960 high of 178,320. Much of the downtown, east side and south side have been cleared of hundreds of...
Oct 28, 2017 · Hatcher, too, saw the inequality in a city whose population in the 1960s was already half African-American, according to James Lane, a professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, but...
At 18 percent of the population of Gary in 1930, another 20,000 Black people would join them by 1940–lured by work in the steel mills.
