Number of African Americans in Urban and Rural Communities, 1890–1930 (2005)

Number of African Americans in Urban and Rural Communities, 1890–1930 (2005)

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Topic 3.16

Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography, “Number and Percent of African Americans in the United States in Urban and Rural Communities, 1890–1930” (2005)

A graph showing urban populations steadily increasing and rural populations rising slightly and then leveling off with five pie charts depicting the proportion of African American in rural and urban setting between 1890 and 1930


A map by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography, “Number and Percent of African Americans in the United States in Urban and Rural Communities, 1890–1930,” In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience website, 2005 (The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, ©NYPL)