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Here are a few more charts from Du Bois and his students: http://allmyeyes.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-history-charts-1900.html http://allmyeyes.blogspot.com/201
by NelsonMinar 8y ago
Here are a few more charts from Du Bois and his students: http://allmyeyes.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-history-charts-1900.html http://allmyeyes.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-history-charts-1...
Du Bois is a unique and towering intellectual in American history; his history of Reconstruction remains full of truths and understandings that our society has not yet absorbed. So I don't mean to diminish his work to note that these infographics exist in a context of other beautiful graphic design and infographics from the 19th century. Some examples:
Florence Nightingale: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/florence-nightingale-infographic https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/florence-nightingale-i...
1870 census: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?9thcensus http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?9thcensus