BHM #10 – African American Communities

African American Communities

Photo: Ahan Bush, age 7, Oct 1954

Pamphlets, photos, postcards.

Political cartoons, illustrations, maps.

Scrap books, legal documents, ephemera and more.

 

Table: Population by race, for the city of Chicago, 1900-1950

This collection, albeit somewhat small, contains a fascinating variety of primary source documents evidencing race relations across social, political, cultural, and religious arenas.

 

Map: Percent African American of total population by counties and congressional districts, state of Georgia, 1940 Examining multiple aspects of the lives of African Americans through the lens of community, it focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and myriad towns and cities in North Carolina. It includes both audio and video of oral histories and images of objects that can be rotated 360 degrees, giving users the sense of being present in the stories as they are told.

 

Photo of Curling tongs, straightening comb, pot of hair pomade and two boxes of hairpins, 1930s

Topics covered include racism, discrimination, desegregation, urban renewal and housing, civil rights movements and protests, community integration, and expressions of a unique African American culture conveyed through the work of artists, writers, actors and musicians.

 

Photo: Chief Aiken with Dr James P. Brawley

The “My Archive” feature allows users to save searches, images, documents, and more into “scrapbooks” that may then be viewed as a slideshow or exported as a pdf.

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