African American Business Resources

Celebrating African American Business Leaders: Past, Present and Future

A listing of statistical compendia on African Americans compiled in conjunction with an exhibit on black business leaders mounted in the Business Reading Room during Black History Month February 2001.

Prepared by Angela Wilson and Gail Austin
Business Reference Services. Science, Technology, and Business Division

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

1. The African-American experience on file / executive editor, C. Carter Smith, Jr. New York : Facts On File, 1998. 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
   ISBN 0-8160-3697-7 (alk. paper)
   LC Call Number: E185.A2533 1998
   LC Catalog Record: 98029845

2. Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook / Alfred N. Garwood, editor. Boulder, Colo. : Numbers & Concepts, c1990. xxiv, 340 p. ; 20 cm.
   ISBN 0-929960-02-5 (trade paper)
   ISBN 0-929960-03-3 (library ed.)
   LC Call Number: E185.86.B5238 1990
   LC Catalog Record: 91182105

3. The Black population in the United States. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1989- (1988-<1991>: Current population reports. Series P-20, Population characteristics) (<1993-94->: Current population reports. P20, Population characteristics) v. ; 28 cm.
   LC Call Number: HA195.A53 subser.E185.5
   LC Catalog Record: 93642496

4. Blacks on the move : a decade of demographic change : from a report prepared by William P. O'Hare ... [et al.] / abridged by Phillip Sawicki. Washington, D.C. : Joint Center for Political Studies, 1982. xvi, 70 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
   ISBN 0-941410-25-0 (pbk.)
   LC Call Number: E185.86.B545 1982
   LC Catalog Record: 82214690

5. Cramer, Clayton E.
   Black demographic data, 1790-1860 : a sourcebook / Clayton E. Cramer. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. viii, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
   ISBN 0-313-30243-X (hardcover : alk. paper)
   LC Call Number: E185.18.C73 1997
   LC Catalog Record: 96038833

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6. Economic census (1992). Survey of minority-owned business enterprises. Survey of minority-owned business enterprises. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1996. 4 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
   LC Call Number: HD2346.U5E269 1996
   LC Catalog Record: 96141790

7. Economic census (1997). Survey of minority-owned business enterprises. Survey of minority-owned business enterprises. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2001. 5 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
   LC Call Number: HD2346.U5 E269 2001
   LC Catalog Record: 2001330031

8. Heaton, Tim B. Statistical handbook on racial groups in the United States / by Tim B. Heaton, Bruce A. Chadwick, and Cardell K. Jacobson. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 2000. xix, 355 p. ; 29 cm.
   ISBN 1-57356-266-1 (alk. paper)
   LC Call Number: E184.A1H417 2000
   LC Catalog Record: 00028477

9. Historical statistics of Black America / compiled & edited by Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Peterson Horton. New York : Gale Research, c1995. 2 v. (lxxxii, 2244 p.) ; 29 cm.
   ISBN 0-8103-8542-2 (acid-free paper)
   ISBN 0-8103-9391-3 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
   ISBN 0-8103-9392-1 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
   LC Call Number: E185.H543 1995
   LC Catalog Record: 94029718

10. Life in Black America / edited by James S. Jackson. Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage, c1991. xi, 311 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
    ISBN 0-8039-3537-4
    ISBN 0-8039-3538-2 (pbk.)
    LC Call Number: E185.86.L497 1991
    LC Catalog Record: 91006934

11. The Metropolitan area fact book : a statistical portrait of blacks and whites in urban America / edited by Katherine McFate. Washington, D.C. : Joint Center for Political Studies, 1988. x, 109 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
    ISBN 0-941410-65-X
    LC Call Number: E185.86.M48 1988
    LC Catalog Record: 88011147

12. Statistical record of Black America. Detroit : Gale Research, c1990-c1997. 4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
    ISSN 1051-8002
    LC Call Number: E185.5.S83
    LC Catalog Record: 91640012

13. United States. Bureau of the Census.
    Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Characteristics of the nonwhite population by race. Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population. Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1943. vi, 112 p. incl. illus. (map) tables. 29 cm.
    LC Call Number: E185.6.U586
    LC Catalog Record: 43050858

14. United States. Bureau of the Census.
    Negro population in the United States, 1790-1915. New York, Arno Press, 1968. (The American Negro, his history and literature) 844 p. illus., maps. 27 cm.
    LC Call Number: HA205.A33 1968
    LC Catalog Record: 68028992

15. United States. Bureau of the Census.
    Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932 [by] Charles E. Hall. New York, Arno Press 1969. (The American Negro, his history and literature) xvi, 845 p. illus., maps. 26 cm.
    LC Call Number: E185.6.U5853 1969
    LC Catalog Record: 69018629

16. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Black Americans; a chartbook. [Prepared by Sylvia S. Small] Washington; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971. (Its Bulletin ; 1699) x, 141 p. col. illus. 24 cm.
    LC Call Number: HD8051.A62 no. 1699
    LC Catalog Record: 71613945