Guides: Black Studies: Statistics

Sources with Statistics on African American and Other Races

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Easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Premium edition features over 15,000 interactive data maps and reports from the U.S. census and other sources.

Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790–2010
Shows how race has been recorded in each of the censuses of population historically,
National Black (African American) History Month (Census Bureau Profile)
Compiles from various U.S. Census sources.
MIDCAT Subject Search: African Americans--Statistics
Find more sources in MIDCAT, the library catalog, using this subject search.
Midd Libraries Data & Statistics Guide
Includes many more sources of U.S. and international statistics in all areas.