Urban Community Studies Research Guide

University of Chicago website from their civic Knowledge Project's Know Your Neighborhood Initiative. It is designed to "provide university students with information about the history and culture of the Southside of Chicago . . ."

Chicago Public Library's digital archival materials of the South Side 1930-1950.

Search thousands of historical resources, including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers, related to Chicago's history. From the Chicago Historical Society.

Bronzeville area events, community postings, archives and more.

WTTW is a premier public media organization committed to creating and presenting independent, unique television and digital media content.

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago. She investigates what urban segregation looks like and how it impacts Chicago residents.

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center at the University of Illinois-Chicago sought to calculate the amount of money extracted from black homeowners on the city's South and West sides from home contract sales.

A research institute in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to civil rights, including photographs, documents, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to civil-rights resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site.

The Civil Rights Era explores the Jim Crow South, the fight against racial discrimination and segregation, and the search for justice of African American men and women through "freedom rides," boycotts, and marches, during this decisive point in black history.

Daily online magazine that provides throught provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives.

The University of Chicago Crime Lab was launched in 2008 to use insights from basic science to help government agencies and non-profit organizations develop innovative new approaches to reducing violence, and work with them to test new innovations using randomized trials.

The mission of the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) is to promote increased accountability by, and transparency about the work of, the Chicago Police Department (CPD).

This data is compiled from reporting done by the Chicago Tribune Breaking News staff and is typically updated more than once per week.

youth.gov is the U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news.

The Egyptian Center for documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage

Library of Congress exhibition of West African manuscripts from the Middle Ages.

Bi-lingual database of over 20,000 Arabic manuscripts from West Africa, provided by University of Illinois, Champaign.

Content provided by PBS, based on the television series hosted by Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is a scholarly organization founded to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought and culture.