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) |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) | An international digital library that contains Caribbean cultural, historical, and research materials. Possible materials include: maps, oral histories, literature, artifacts, government documents, newspapers, and more. | Dr. Laurie N. Taylor, Perry Collins, Laura Perry |
| Digital Library on American Slavery | The Digital Library on American Slavery is an expanding resource compiling online collections of public records focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. Documents include court records, slave deeds, and runaway slave ads. Although the current focus of DLAS is sources associated with North Carolina, there is considerable data contained herein relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C., including detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Digital Nollywood | A digital archive that preserves the "material history of the film medium in Nigeria, particularly Nollywood." Contains film posters and still images. | Dr. James Yeku, University of Kansas |
| Digital Schomburg | A collection of digital projects and archives that have been developed by the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Includes oral histories, digital collections, digital projects, web archives, livestream events and videos, information on African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, and more. | Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture |
| DigitalNC | Contains yearbooks, newspapers, images, audiovisual, city directories, and memorabilia in North Carolina. Materials come from nearly 250 museums, libaries, and archives in North Carolina | North Carolina Digital Heritage Center |
| Digitizing Diaspora | A project that "maps the travels of prominent thinkers and actors in the African diaspora." Provides access to archival materials such as journal entries, photos, and interviews and a visualization and timeline of physical movement between Black intellectuals. | Dr. A. Joseph-Gabriel |
| DLNP: Historically Black Newspapers of Louisiana | The Digitizing Louisiana Newspaper Project (DLNP) offers 128 titles from the state of Louisiana published between 1836 through 1922 — a total of 328,900 pages. Four (4) historically black newspaper titles have been digitized. | Louisiana State University (LSU) Libraries Special Collections |
| Documenting the African American Experience in Las Vegas | An online archive that contains materials relating to the history of the Las Vegas Black community. Includes information about social organizations, churches, businesses, political organizations, publications, schools, and various forms of entertainment. | UNLV University Libraries |