African Americans in Petersburg: Historic Contexts and Resources for Preservation, Planning, Research and Interpretation (1994) is a 135-page report — and you can download it for free! If you want to get directly to the map, click on the title (or the map) and look at image 61 of 135.
Do not be put off by the publication date. The report includes highly detailed information about the
city’s population from 1790-1960; a detailed timeline; a list of historic places (neighborhoods, areas, and districts); descriptions of buildings and sites outside predominately African American neighborhoods; notable African Americans from Petersburg; and maps of Petersburg showing predominantly or wholly Black settlements in 1877, 1915, 1930, 1944, 1950,
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