I pulled up some data that talked about in the 1950s. I think I'd looked at the 50s, and I wanted to understand black home ownership in the 50s. The numbers In the 1950s, black home ownership was roughly around 35%. As I think about the numbers and the data that I can find today about where we are either specifically here in Milwaukee as a black community or where we are nationally, those numbers are significantly lower than that 35% from the 1950s. (1:07:23–1:07:29)
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Asserts that black home ownership was approximately 35% in the 1950s.
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