“After World War II, there was evidence of ‘white flight’ from the inner northeast area. While blacks were steadily moving into census tracts 22 and 23, whites were rapidly moving out. According to the 1950 census reports, the tracts with the highest nonwhite population were 22 and 23, covering the inner (Albina) northeast area, where 46 percent of the black population lived. The nonwhite population of tract 22 increased from 792 in 1940 to 2,820 in 1950, while the white population in the area dropped from 6,159 to 4,395. In census tract 23, nonwhites increased from 407 to 1,863 and whites decreased from 6,136 to 5,187. The two tracts together gained 3,484 nonwhites while losing 2,713 whites.” Source: Portland Bureau of Planning, The History of Portland’s African American Community (1805 to the Present), February, 1993.