Six Facts about Black Americans for Black History Month

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/23/6-facts-about-black-americans-for-black-history-month/

1. High school dropout rates have declined faster among blacks ages 18 to 24 than the national average.
2. In the last presidential election, the black voter turnout rate exceeded that of whites in a presidential election for the first time, by 66.6% to 64.1%From 1910 to 1970, about 6 million blacks left the South to move to other parts of the country in what is called the Great Migration.
3. The poverty rate among blacks is the highest of any racial or ethnic group, but has declined slightly over time
4. Barack Obama overshadows others as the nation’s most important black leader
5. Looking to the future, blacks are more likely than whites to say a lot needs to be done to achieve racial equality in the U.S