Milwaukee’s inner-city schools were majority black while its suburbs were almost entirely white.

Evidence

The inner city public schools consisted of 51 percent black students who were often products of low-income, jobless parents and often times female headed households. In stark contrast the suburbs only contained one half of one percent of blacks. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 40

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• SHARE: Stark 51 percent versus one half of one percent statistic worth sending to someone writing about metropolitan segregation and white flight.