Research Guides: African American Human Rights Struggle (Main): Data &amp; Mapping

African American Data Sources

Published Data Digests and Reports

Websites and Visualizations

Statista This link opens in a new window
Aggregates statistical data on national and international industry, markets, and consumers.
Much of the aggregate data is available for download/exported, although the underlying microdata is not.
SageData This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations.
Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Subjects include health, crime, population, finance, industry, and marketing. Data is available for the world as a whole or for selected countries. Data for the U.S. are shown by state, often by county, sometimes by census tract and zip code. Time series data may go back several decades. Data sources include the U.S. government and the World Bank.
Historical Statistical Abstracts of the US This link opens in a new window
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States. It gathers statistics from various agencies into a more accessible format (PDF and downloadable excel tables).

Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new window
Access the Gallup Analytics interface to search aggregated polling data from Gallup, which has been conducting opinion polls since the 1930s.

Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press is a major center for the study of public opinion and regularly conducts polls about various social and political topics and contemporary issues.

Roper Center This link opens in a new window
The Roper Center is one of the country's premier centers for polling data. Its holdings date back to 1935 and come from a variety of sources and cover a wide array of topics. While the bulk of the Center's data are for national polls, it also includes many state-level polls as well. There are also many surveys from outside of the U.S. You can search for surveys at the question level, and datasets for most of those surveys are available to download. Note: Each Emory user must register, using an Emory e-mail address, to download data. Users who have previously registered may need to register again, as Roper has recently updated its website.

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Contains U.S. census data from 1790-2010, updates from the American Community Survey, data on religious congregations, and more. Includes an online research tool designed to analyze and report on available information.