Tag Archives: Black history

Interactive Map: Davenport’s Early Black Community

Posted on January 20, 2023 by SCblogger

One of our favorite resources is accession 2004-67: African American residential patterns in Davenport, Iowa. Compiled by Craig R. Klein of Scott Community College, the collection consists of photocopied maps showing African American residential patterns in Davenport, Iowa in 1867, … Continue reading →

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“Last Seen” and the Black Community in Davenport

Posted on August 20, 2022 by SCblogger

A valuable resource for discovering more details about the families of Davenport’s post-Civil War Black community is Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, an online database of advertisements “placed in newspapers across the United States (and beyond) by formerly enslaved … Continue reading →

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