Sentences with phrase «black population exploded»

In the 20th century, Detroit's black population exploded as African - Americans left the South in search of a fair and prosperous place to call home.

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This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.

In the 1920s, Harlem's African - American population exploded — with nearly 200,000 African Americans inhabiting a neighborhood where there had been virtually no blacks 15 years earlier.