San Francisco

San Francisco Though the black population of San Francisco was very small up until World War II—less than five hundred in 1852 and still below five thousand in 1940—the city was a regular port of call for touring musicians and supported a thriving black entertainment district. The war saw a large influx of blacks—by 1950 the black population was nearly forty-five thousand—and the creation of ghettos near the shipyards at Hunter’s Point and especially in the Fillmore district , where there were…