Economics, Not
Discrimination, Cited in Concentration of Blacks in Tract
By
Capital News Service and Maryland Newsline staffs
Thursday, May 3, 2001
BALTIMORE - The population of Census Tract 1703 has
dropped sharply in the last decade, and the residents who remain are
overwhelmingly African-Americans. The tract has the highest
concentration of blacks in the state, the 2000 census shows. From
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Franklin Street, Tract 1703 is
bounded by Franklin Street on the south, North Fremont Avenue on the
west, West Lafayette Avenue on the north and Pennsylvania Avenue and
MLK on the east. |