In 1960, the Cuban community
in the United States, including those born in Cuba as well as
those born in America of Cuban parentage, totaled 124,416. Only
6.5 percent of this community is nonwhite, while 25 percent of
the population in Cuba is nonwhite. The Cuban community in the
United States has almost 46 percent of its number living in the
Northeast, and it has another 43 percent living in Florida.
Almost the entire community is divided between the cities of
Miami and New York.
This immigration of foreign-born blacks into the cities of the
North and West was concurrent with a sizeable movement of
American blacks from the rural South into these same cities.
Actually, this internal migration was not new. As soon as the
Northern states had begun to abolish slavery, runaways from the
slave states in the South began to trickle into the North. As
the underground Railway developed, this trickle swelled into a
sizeable flow.
Immediately after the Civil War, the flow reversed directions
for a short time. Many who had run away during the war returned
home to be with friends and family.
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