African Americans Return
Chicago native Deon Bradley, President and CEO of Charlotte’s Afro American Cultural Center from 2006 to 2008, moved here in 2003. A generation earlier, his mother left the South, moving from segregated Mississippi to Chicago. Photo courtesy of Afro-American Cultural Center, architectural image by studio amd, courtesy of the Freelon Group.
African Americans are returning to the South.
From 1880 to 1980, a million African Americans left in search of opportunity. Now many are returning.
Publications such as Black Enterprise magazine rate Charlotte one of the best places in the country for African Americans to live.
