Afro American Studies

This is your library research guide to AFROAM 297A (#10570)
Black Springfield Matters
An Introduction to New Afrikan Urban Studies
A course taught by Amilcar Shabazz

Thomas Thomas (left) stands in the doorway of his restaurant on Worthington Street with Mrs. Mary Ann Jones Jenkins and Edgar Lee. 
From the Springfield Picture Collection of the Museum of Springfield History, Springfield, MA More at Our Plural History 

Library Guide by Isabel Espinal

Policy Map is map-creation tool for visualizing many categories of data: income, housing, quality of life, federal guidelines, and more. Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Check out this tutorial on creating 3 layer maps:

Similar to PolicyMap, "ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information; sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of applications; and managing geographic information in a database.The system provides an infrastructure for making maps and geographic information available throughout an organization, across a community, and openly on the Web." (Wikipedia) The basic featuers of ArcGIS do not require a UMass account.