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) |
|---|---|---|
| Linked Jazz | A digital project that illustrates relationships between jazz musicians via a network visualization that was built by linking data from over 50 interview transcripts. | Semantic Lab at Pratt |
| Linking Lost Jazz Shrines | A digital project that transforms data from the Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn (WLJSB) oral history collection into linked open data. This makes the data more accessible to researchers. | Weeksville Heritage Center, Semantic Lab at Pratt |
| Livingstone Online | A digital museum and library that "allows users to encounter the written, visual, and material legacies" of David Livingstone (1813-1873). Contains over 15,000 images and 780 transcriptions. | Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki, Dr. Megan Ward |
| Lo Life Archive | An archive that chronicles the lives and experiences of "Lo Lifes," kids who lived in Brooklyn during the late 1980s and the intersection between Hip Hop and fashion. Contains oral histories, a photo collection, videos, and articles about the archive. | The Gates Preserve, Andrea Battleground, and Jessica C. Neal |
| Lost Friends Exhibition | Includes advertisements created by former slaves looking for loved ones after freedom. Ads comes from the Southwestern Christian Advocate (1877-1929) | The Historic New Orleans Collections |
| Lost History of Dr. Frederick (Bailey) Douglass on Maryland's Eastern Shore | A blog that follows Dickson Preston's research on Dr. Frederick (Bailey) Douglass. | Dickson Preston |
| Louisiana Slave Conspiracies | A digital project that explores a revolution planned by enslaved peoples in Pointe Coup | Dr. Bryan Wagner, Dr. Patty Frontiera, Dr. Shadrick Small, Dr. Jenelle Thomas |
| Louisville Leader | A digital collection containing the digitized microfilm records of "The Louisville Leader," a weekly African American newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. Newspaper records are transcribed and searchable. The original records originated from the Cole Publishing Company building. | University of Louisville Libraries |