 By the end of World War II, the success of African American businesses gave Durham the title as “Capital of the Black Middle Class.” However, the 1960s urban renewal removed much of Hayti and Durham’s Black Wall Street.This urban sprawl coupled with a heated Civil Rights movements from the 1940s to 1970s began the first real desegregation of black and white business districts.By the late 1900s the Census Bureau reported the city’s population as 39.8% black and 59.8% white.