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) |
|---|---|---|
| California African American Museum | A museum that showcases collections and exhibitions that have been created by African, Diasporic, and African American artists. | |
| Caribbean Memory Project | The "Caribbean's first crowd-sourced cultural heritage research platform." Also functions as a public repository, containing family archives, correspondence, maps, newspapers, biographies, and more | Dr. Kevin Adonis Browne, Dawn Cumberbatch |
| Carisealand - Sustainable Caribbean Futures | A digital project that shares "projects, data, art, and works in progress within the Caribbean region." The project looks to answer challenging questions about creating a sustainable future in the Caribbean. Includes an interactive map of Caribbean sustainability environmental resources. | Create Caribbean Research Institute |
| Cassey and Dickerson Friendship Album Project | A project that has digitized and transcribed the 19th-century albums of Amy Matilda Cassey and Martina and Mary Anne Dickerson. | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Cataloging Africana | A blog that discusses methods of cataloging African materials. | |
| Celebrating Simms: The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School | A digital exhibit that focuses on the life of Lucy F. Simms, pioneering African American educator. It also provides information about the school that was named after her. The project includes information on the history of African American education in Harrisonburg, Virginia (VA), educational resources for K-12 teachers, video interviews of teachers and students who went to the Lucy F. Simms School, and more. | James Madison University and the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Center in association with Billo Harper |
| Century of Black Mormons | A database that documents the lives of Black Mormons who were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the first one hundred years of the faith (1830-1930). Contains biographies, historical documents, analytics, an interactive map, a timeline, and more. | The University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library |
| Chicago Defender Archives | The digital archive of the Chicago Defender newspaper. Contains 15,000+ newspaper editions and hundreds of thousands of photographs over the course of a century. | Chicago Defender |