Newark was a major center of the defense industry during WWII. According to my older relatives (and articles that I've read over the years), that's when the big mass migration from the South happenned.
Newark's black population, btw, is at 57% and dropping. It was as high as 69% in the mid 1980s.
38 posted on 07/09/2007 3:55:51 PM PDT by Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)