> "Our position upon the Pacific, our commercial and mineral attractions, would bring swarms of this population to our shores." RE: this, check out the cover s

> "Our position upon the Pacific, our commercial and mineral attractions, would bring swarms of this population to our shores." RE: this, check out the cover story of the 1954 edition of the The Negro Travelers' Green Book travel guide, "The Golden Gate": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/The_Negro_Travelers'_Green_Book_1954.pdf#page=13 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/The_Negr... "San Francisco however, is fast becoming the focal point of the Negroes’ future. Before World War II this city had fewer than 5,000 Negroes. High war wages attracted these people from all over the country to this boom town. More than 45,000 Negroes are squeezed into two areas of, San Francisco today, with an estimated thirty-five percent unemployed." And then check out the inflection point on this graph: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2016/05/11/the-african-american-exodus-from-san-francisco/?sh=2b6ce465595a https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2016/05/11/the-afr...