African-American » Maps & Geography

African American Migration Patterns | Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

These interactive maps provide a glimpse into the overall patterns of black migration in the United States between 1920 and 2010. One charts the movement of blacks from their states of origin to key destination cities in the North, the other follows the more recent movement in reverse to the South.

African American Odyssey

From the Library of Congress.

America's Great Migrations Project - Mapping the Great Migration (African American)

America's Great Migrations Project - Mapping the Southern Diaspora

ARGO - African-American History

ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online is an exciting new project led by Fred W. Smith Library National Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal will collate digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal.

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Amazon.com)

by David Eltis and David Richardson

Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices

This is a map of Field Offices established by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The record of these offices have been microfilmed by the National Archives.

Historical Maps Related to the William Still Collection

This 1901 map, contemporary to William and Caroline Still's time, has been overlaid with markers showing the former locations of prominent Philadelphia African-Americans and African-American institutions related to the life and times of William Still and Caroline Still Wiley Anderson. The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia contained the largest population of African-Americans in the city at that time, and was the subject of sociological studies by W.E.B. Du Bois.

Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.

LAPL Blog - Mapping the History of African Americans

Library of Congress Blog - Louise E. Jefferson – A Hidden African American Cartographer

LOC - African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide - Images & Maps

MAAP: Mapping the African American Past

Mapping Black History and Heritage in North Carolina

Mapping Inequality - Redlining in New Deal America

Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau

This site is devoted to pointing out the many places that affected the newly freed survivors of slavery. The sites where Freedman’s Bureau offices were located are marked for you. In addition other institutions that served former slaves, are marked – the branches of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, Freedmen Schools, contraband camps, and even the location of battle sites where men who were in the US Colored Troops fought.

Mapping the Nation - Chapter 4: Slavery and the Origin of Statistical Cartography

Maps of Liberia 1830-1870

From the Library of Congress, American Colonization Society Collection.

NAACP History and Geography 1909-1980 - Mapping American Social Movements

NARA Blog - Cartographic Records Relating to African American History