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Vermont
According to the 2000 Census, Vermont is 96.8% White.
- According to the 2000 Census, in Vermont, 0.5% (3,063) of its residents
self identify as African-American, 0.9% (5,217) as Asian (all nationalities
combined), Hispanic 0.9% (5,504) and 0.4% (2,420) as Native American
- The number of African-American residents in the State of Vermont grew by
57% between the 1990 (1,951) and the 2000 (3,063) census.
- The number of Asian residents in the State of Vermont grew by 63% between
the 1990 (3,215) and the 2000 (5,217) census.
- The number of Hispanic residents in the State of Vermont grew by 50%
between the 1990 (3,661) and the 2000 (5,504) census.
- The number of Native American residents in the State of Vermont grew by
43% between the 1990 (1,696) and the 2000 (2,420) census.
Burlington
According to the 2000 census, Burlington is 92.6% White
- According to the 2000 census, in Burlington, 1.8% (693) of its residents
self identify as African-American, 2.7% (1,039) as Asian, 1.4% (546) as
Hispanic, and 0.5% (182) as Native American
- The number of students of color in the Burlington School District in
school year 2000-2001 was 14.3% (up from 12.6% in 1999-2000). In
certain schools (Barnes and Wheeler), nearly one in three students are
students of color. (Source - Vermont Department of Education)
Given these recent trends, Vermont in general and Burlington in particular
will become increasingly diverse with respect to race and ethnicity.
Burlington Free Press Headlines 2002
- MAY 16th - "[HUMAN] RIGHTS PANEL SEEKS STUDENT'S REINSTATEMENT-Swanton
teen retaliated against racial taunting… The Vermont Human Rights Commission
yesterday asked a state court to lift the suspension of a Swanton high-school
student accused of assaulting a student who had been racially harassing
him."
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MAY 17th - "JUDGE: STUDENT CAN GO TO PROM-Missisquoi Valley Union senior was
suspended after attack. A Vermont Superior Court judge yesterday ruled that the
18 year-old Missisquoi Valley Union High School senior may return to school
activities at the conclusion of classes today…."
- SEPTEMBER 17th - "DENNY'S SETTLES DISCRIMINATION SUIT - The Human
Rights Commission had filed suit charging the owner of Denny's Restaurant with
racial discrimination for an incident in which two black customers were told to
either sit alone in back room next to a dirty mop bucket or leave the
restaurant."
- NOVEMBER 6th-"UVM ROBBERY INVESTIGATION PROMPTS TALK OF RACIAL
PROFILING - The University of Vermont is investigating the actions of a campus
police officer who handcuffed a female student at gunpoint during a police
search for a male suspect in an earlier armed robbery. The suspect and the
female student are black, but their physical similarities end there…."
Students offered the following comments, "I thought that they'd at least
have the right sex;" and, "Was it just the cops looking for a black
person and the first black person they saw they just went crazy?"
Human Rights Commission Charges and Data
Over the past 9 years, one in three charges of discrimination received by the
Vermont Human Rights Commission against places of public accommodations has been
against schools. (Source - Vermont Human Rights Commission)
Nearly one in three of those discrimination charges against schools have
involved claims that the student was discriminated against because of the
student's race or color. (Source - Vermont Human Rights Commission)
Criminal Justice Data
- In all arrests, black males were 1.5 times and black females 2.6 times
more likely to be arrested than white males. (Source - Vermont Center
for Justice Research)
- In crimes against persons, black males were 1.8 times and black females
2.5 times more likely to be arrested than white males or females.
(Source - Vermont Center for Justice Research)
- In crimes against property, black females were 2.9 times and black males
were 1.4 times more likely to be arrested than white males. (Source -
Vermont Center for Justice Research)
- On June 1, 2001, The Vermont Department of Corrections reported that there
were 1,613 persons in Vermont prisons, of which 83, or 5.1% of the total
were identified as African-Americans. (Source - Vermont Department of
Corrections)
- African-Americans appear as prisoners in Vermont jails at a rate greater
than seven times than the rate that African-Americans appear in the general
population of Vermont.
- The 5% rate of incarceration for African-Americans is twice the 2.6% rate
that African-Americans appear in arrest date, 530 African-Americans out of a
total of 21,197 arrests in Vermont in 2000.
- While only .2% of white Vermonters were in jail on June 1, 2001, 12% of
all African-American Vermonters were incarcerated on that date.
Page last updated March 10, 2003
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