The Georgia Negro: data portraits for the Paris Exposition
Hand-drawn in ink and gouache, these charts put the lives of Black Americans after slavery in front of a world’s fair audience. The spiral bars and bent lines break every modern rule and lose nothing by it.
Preview from Wikimedia Commons, public domain, from the Library of Congress, shown from their site.
By
W. E. B. Du Bois and his students at Atlanta University · 1900
Where
Public statistics · Race and society
Form
Static image · to persuade
Visual
Length, Area, Colour, Space
Data
Census returns and the Atlanta University studies
Original