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) |
|---|---|---|
| Douglass Day | An annual program that gathers thousands of people to transcribe and create "new and freely available resources for learning about Black history." | The Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State, Zooniverse. |
| Duluth Lynchings | A digital project that provides historical documents and a chronology of the events leading up to and after the Duluth Lynchings in northeast Minnesota. Includes oral histories, a timeline, brief biographies of individuals involved in the incident, letters, and other documents. | Minnesota Historical Society |
| Dunham | A project that presents visualizations based on data provided from the daily itineraries of Katherine Dunham's traveling and touring between the 1930s and 1960s. Offers insight into the relationships between the performers she worked with and the locations she travelled. | Dr. Kate Elswit, Dr. Harmony Bench |
| Editorial Networks of the Antebellum African American Press | A website that provides information about the Black Press in the Canada and the United States between 1827 and 1864. Contains visualizations, bibliographies, and information on editors. | Dr. Jim Casey |
| Elmer P. Gibson Army Chaplain Images (1941-1957) | The Flickr album from the Military Collection at the State Archives of North Carolina is composed of over 280 photographs documenting the U.S. Army service of pioneering African-American Chaplain Elmer P. Gibson of Greensboro, N.C., and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gibson served from 1941 to 1957, and saw service in World War II and the Korean War. He was stationed in wartime and in peacetime as a chaplain at the following locations and military installations: Camp Claiborne, Louisiana; Camp Papago Park, Arizona; Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi; Aleutian Islands, Alaska; Fort Jackson, S.C.; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Korea; and Fort Lewis, Washington. Gibson was one of the major Army forces for racial integration of the U.S. Armed Forces from 1942 to 1954, and served as an advisor on racial integration to U.S. President Harry S. Truman starting around 1945. The majority of the images are from his service in the 1950s. The photographs are a visual representation of the progression of integration efforts in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1956, beginning with segregated living quarters in Louisiana in 1942 to Gibson officiating interracial Army weddings at Fort Lewis, Washington, by the mid-1950s. Perhaps the most significant sets of photographs are from Gibson’s World War II service as a chaplain with the segregated African American 367th and 364th Infantry Regiments, 92nd Infantry Division, while they were stationed at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana; Camp Papago Park, Arizona; and in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. These images are rare depictions of African American troops in chapel services, during training, during meals, and general scenes in WWII. Of particular interest are photographs of interracial Army chapel services held by Gibson in the Aleutian Islands—years before the Army established integration policies. Many of the photographs have unidentified men pictured in the units. From Elmer P. Gibson Papers, MMP 9, Miscellaneous Military Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. | Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina |
| Emmett Till Project | A website that commemorates the murder and trial of Emmett Louis Till by contextualizing the event and preparing a digital narrative to unpack the case. Includes archival materials from the Schomburg Center and uses social media and podcasts for discussions. | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
| Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History | Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History is a long-term digital humanities project at the Nabb Research Center that features a searchable database for finding meaningful connections within digitized and transcribed sources, such as censuses, certificates of freedom, church records, newspapers, ledgers, and oral histories that illuminate the history of Black communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (and beyond) across the Delmarva Peninsula. In an effort to preserve and promote the study of the region’s diverse history, this project aims to bridge long-existing gaps in archival and genealogical collections representing Black history and culture. | Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture |
| Enslaved People in the Southeast | A digital exhibit that includes records and images relating to the enslavement of individuals in the Southeastern United States. Resources may include letters, insurance and taxation documents, emancipation documents, bills of sale, and maps with segregation zones. Also includes items related to Jim Crow in the 20th century and convict lease labor. | The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) |