Jerry Herron
Jerry Herron
Jerry Herron is the dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University . He was born in Abilene, Texas and received his PhD and MA from Indiana University and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written two books: Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. He is also a The Detroit News writer...
detroit percent population race says today
Everyone says look at what 'those people' did to my city. And race is always an element. In 1950, Detroit had a population of 1.8 million; 80 percent were white, 20 percent black. Today the population is 900,000 and those percentages have more than reversed.