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Primary and selected secondary sources for research in African American Studies at Princeton University.

Data

Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook.  Boulder, Colo.: Numbers & Concepts, 1990–2009 editions.  In African American Studies Reading Room, E185.86 .B52563.

BlackDemographics.com 

The Forced Migration of Enslaved People in the United States.  Has demographic data on the movement of people within the United States between 1810-1860

National Survey of Black Americans Series, 1979–1982.

Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro. Online versions at the link.   Firestone E185.5 N41 scattered issues from 1912–1952.

Pew Research Center - Black Americans

Pew Research Center - Race and Ethnicity

Race in America: Tracking 50 Years of Demographic Trends

The State of Black America.  2001-present at the link.  1977-1999 can be recalled.  2001-2015 issues are at Firestone E185.5 .N317.

Statistical record of Black America.  4th edition (1997) can be recalled from storage using the link.

United States Census Data

Social Explorer: make maps out of census data

Black demographic data, 1790-1860: a sourcebook, by Clayton E. Cramer.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997

Historical statistics of the United States Millennial Edition  (Colonial Period to 2000)

Negro population in the United States, 1790-1915. In Firestone Library at HA205.A33 1968.

Roper iPoll Survey Database.  Data from public opinion surveys starting in the 1930s.

--  Public Opinion: Finding Black American Samples for Analysis

Data and Statistical Services

Data and Statistical Services   
Highlights of the microdata collections at Princeton University.