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) |
|---|---|---|
| African Activist Archive Project | An archive that contains records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social justice between the 1950s and 1990s. Records include, newsletters, buttons, posters, photos, audio and video recordings, interviews with activists, an international directory of collections in various libraries and archives and more. Holds over 10,000 items. | Michigan State University, Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
| African American AIDS History Project | A "crowd-contributed archive of African American responses to the HIV/AIDs epidemic." Project includes oral histories, archival video, posters, and printed materials. | |
| African American Cemeteries Online | Resources regarding African American cemeteries, funeral homes, newspapers, and death records. | AfriGeneas |
| African American Civil War Soldiers | A project that involves transcribing records of African American soldiers in the American Civil War. This crowdsourcing will help created a database of at least 200,000 soldiers who were part of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). | John Clegg, Dr. Danny Colligan, Aaliyah Muhammad, Kate Thomas, African American Civil War Soldiers Museum |
| African American Education in North Carolina | This collection contains documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950 drawn from the collections of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and the State Archives of North Carolina, housed in the North Carolina Digital Collections (NCDC). Currently the digital collection includes selected photographs and other materials from the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, a Historic Site within the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. These materials were provided for research and educational purposes; prior permission from the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum is required for any commercial use. Yearbooks from the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum are available online from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. This digital collection also contains materials from Division of Negro Education of the Department of Public Instruction record group in the custody of the State Archives of North Carolina, including the following series: 1) Correspondence of the Supervisor, Rosenwald Fund--These materials are presented as folders rather than as items due to the amount of information in the Rosenwald Fund files. For more information about the Rosenwald Fund, see the related NCPedia entry and North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office page on the Rosenwald schools. 2) Speeches and articles by N.C. Newbold, the Director of the Division of Negro Education - These materials come from conferences and committees and include topics such as race relations, salaries, education opportunities, comparative information from different states, information on enrollment, number of graduates, and the output from teacher training programs. These items date from 1922 to 1948. | State Archives of North Carolina |
| African American Experience in Athens | A website that explores the experience of African Americans at the University of Georgia and the surrounding city of Athens, Georgia. | University of Georgia |
| African American Firefighters | A digital collection including photos and materials relating to African American Firefighters who worked in the Indianapolis Fire Department in Indiana (IN). | Digital Indy, Indianapolis Public Library |
| African American Griot Legacy Project | To breakdown genealogical brick walls by linking Enslaved and enslavers through records and genetic testing. | Charles Wilson |