Libraries/Archives |
Sample documents |
| History Matters - City University of New York | 7 Letters
to the Chicago Defender, 1917
"Their Own Hotheadedness": speech by Senator Benjamin R. "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman |
| American Memory - Library of Congress | "Lynch Law a National Disgrace", 1920 |
| African American Mosaic - Library of Congress | Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration |
| Journal of Negro History - issues back to 1916 | Letters of Negro Migrants 1916-1918 |
| WPA slave narratives - University of Virginia | |
| Documenting the American South - University of North Carolina | |
| PLEASE SEND MORE SUGGESTIONS! joshuar@uic.edu | |
Population data archives |
Sample documents |
| USA historical data maps - maps of African American populations from census data 1890-1960, from University of Illinois at Chicago's Big City Teacher Preparation Initiative, as well as some other US data maps | US African American population by county, 1930 census |
| Chicago historical data maps - DePaul University's collection of maps of Chicago's African American community in 1910, 1920, and 1960-1990, used in Black Metropolis Revisited | Chicago African American population, 1920 census |
| Current urban population maps - California State University's Electronic Map Library, with census data (1990 and/or 2000) on several US cities, including the "Digital Atlas of Chicago" | Chicago African American population, 1990 census |
| Historical census database - search census data back to the first census in 1790. From the University of Virginia. | Census 1910: population characteristics by state or county |
