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) |
|---|---|---|
| Forever Free: Slave Deeds of Buncombe County, NC | The Buncombe County Register of Deeds office has kept property records since the late 1700s. In our records one can find a wealth of information about the history of our community. On this page, we have compiled a list of the documents that record the trade of people as slaves in Buncombe County. | Buncombe County Register of Deeds office, University of North Carolina - Asheville's Center for Diversity Education |
| Fort Negley Descendants Project | An oral history archive that contains interviews with the descendents of African Americans who built and defended Fort Negley in Nashville, Tennessee. | Vanderbilt University |
| Fourth Generation Inclusive | A collection of historical documents relating to North Carolina's Free People of Color. | Lisa Y. Henderson |
| Franklin Memories | A digital, collaborative family history archive that includes information about various African American families from Franklin, North Carolina. Contains photo collections, stories, individual and family biographies, and family trees. | Olivia Dorsey Peacock |
| Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland | A digital mapping project that contains information on African Americans who traveled to the British Isles to speak about slavery, racism, and lynching during the 19th century. | Dr. Hannah Murray |
| Freedom Now! | A digital archive about the Freedom Movement in Mississippi and the Brown-Tougaloo Exchange. Includes a database of documents from the Tougaloo College and Brown University Archives. | Brown University, Tougaloo College |
| Freedom on the Move | A searchable database of runaway enslaved people from North American slavery. Volunteers crowdsource information from advertisements. | Cornell University, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Cornell University Library, The University of Alabama, The University of New Orleans, University of Kentucky, The Ohio State University |
| Freedom's Ring: King's "I Have A Dream" Speech | An animated version of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech." | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University |