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) |
|---|---|---|
| BlackPast | Contains a variety of materials on African American history, includes an online encyclopedia, transcripts of over 300 speeches given between 1789 and 2016, full text primary documents, timelines, digital archive collections, research centers, and more. | Quintard Taylor |
| Bloomington-Normal Black History Project | The Bloomington-Normal Black History Project was founded in 1982 and its collections span the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains photographs, portraits, booklets, articles, and photocopies related to club organizations and churches of the local Black community. In 1989, the Black History Project was affiliated with the McLean County Historical Society, which now serves as a repository for the project's collections. | Bloomington-Normal Black History Project |
| Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 | A collection of narratives that were colelcted during the 1930s via the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Includes hundreds of photos of formerly enslaved people and more than 2000 recounts of slavery. | Library of Congress |
| Bronx African American Oral History Project | A community project that contains collections containing essays and oral histories. Interviews were conducted with educators, clergy, social works, athletes, musicians, political leaders, business people, and community-based organization leaders from 1930 to the 1950s. | |
| Bronzeville Historical Society | A website that contains information relating to the Bronzeville History Society, which preserves and protects African American history and culture in Chicago. | |
| Buffalo Criterion newspaper | Digitized issues of the Buffalo Criterion, an African-American newspaper published in Buffalo, NY, since 1925. Online issues go back to 1974. | Contributed by The Buffalo And Erie County Public Library to the New York State Historic Newspapers website |
| Building the Black Press | A project about the Black press and the built environment. | E. James West |
| Bumpkin Files | A multimedia project that explores "Black life in Britain beyond London and underrepresented voices across the global diaspora." | Karis Beaumont |