Milwaukee Today: NAACP’s Report on the City’s African Americans
By Lisa Kaiser Express Milwaukee 5/29/2011
“Grim.”
That’s what R.L. McNeely called the findings of a new NAACP study on the status of African Americans in Milwaukee.
Take, for example, some of these facts presented in “Milwaukee Today: An Occasional Report of the NAACP” by McNeely with UW-Milwaukee’s David Pate and Lisa Ann Johnson:
- Milwaukee remains one of the most segregated cities in the nation and has lost 38% of its white population since 1985.
- “Milwaukee’s African-American married-couple family is an endangered institution,” the report states. Only 28% of Milwaukee’s black families had two parents in 2000, down from 64% in 1970.
- The median income of families headed by single mothers—regardless of race—is $18,800, about one-third of the $61,300 income earned by married-couple families in Milwaukee County. But, according to