Via Flashbak:
In 1900 civil rights activist, author and intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois (wiki) presented a series of 58 hand-drawn infographics for The Exhibit of American Negroes exhibition at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Curated by Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Thomas J. Calloway, the visualized statistics would become objects of knowledge and reveal the state of black life in the United States.
Many of the statistics are from the state of Georgia, which had the largest black population at the time. Others are from the U.S as a whole (as it was configured at that time):
More at Flashbak, which has links to much more.
