Search for a Black History Project
This website is a free, searchable directory for online history projects that can help further Black History research. This ongoing project was created to collect information about these digital Black History projects in order to benefit historians, genealogists, and family historians who are researching the lives of Black individuals and families.
406 Search Result(s)
| Project Name | Description | Creator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| #SchomburgSyllabus | The #SchomburgSyllabus is an archive of new and recent educational resources relating to Black studies, movements, and experiences. By connecting these materials to the Schomburg Center's collections, we honor and recognize the source and strength of Black self-education practices, collective study, and librarianship. The #SchomburgSyllabus is curated by Schomburg Center staff and organized into 27 themes to foster a greater understanding of the Black experience. | Zakiya Collier, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
| 3D Richmond Slave Trade | Visualization of Richmond, Virginia (VA) in March 1853 that highlights auction houses and slave jails. Based on a route completed by Eyre Crowe, an English painter. | Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond |
| A Colony in Crisis: The Saint Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 | Provides the original French version and English translations of primary sources related to the grain shortage of 1789 in Saint-Domingue. | University of Maryland University Libraries |
| A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland | An archive of stories and accounts of police violence observed or experienced by Cleveland citizens. Include incident reports, narratives, protest posters, testimonials, press coverage, and more. Created in Summer 2015. | Cleveland, OH residents and professional archivists from across the U.S |
| A Red Record | A project that reveals and documents lynchings in the American South, starting with North Carolina. Including a map additional visualizations, a listing of individuals who were killed in North Carolina lynchings (between the end of the Civil War and the start of World War II), a listing of resources, and K-12 curriculum materials. | Elijah Gaddis, Seth Kotch |
| A Shaky Truce: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980 | Contains digitized archival documents and oral history interviews relating to the civil rights movement in Starkville, Mississippi. Includes an interactive map, interview videos, a timeline and written histories of the civil rights in Starkville, and additional resources for teachers and researchers. | Mississippi State University History Department |
| A Tale of Two Plantations: Enslaved Families in Virginia and Jamaica | Interactive website that describes the lives of over 400 enslaved families at the Virginia Mount Airy plantation and the Mesopotamia plantation in Jamaica. | Dr. Richard Dunn, History Design Studio |
| Accessible Archives: African American Newspapers | A collection of African American newspapers. | Accessible Archives, Inc. |