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) |
|---|---|---|
| Love and Suspense in Paris Noir: Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar's Rendezvous Eighteenth | An interactive book that explores Jake Lamar's novel, "Rendezvous Eighteenth" and the lives of African-American expatriates connected to Paris, Lamar, and his work. | Dr. Tyechia Thomson |
| Lowcountry Africana | Contains resources "dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida." | Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, South Carolina |
| Lowcountry Digital History Initiative | A digital project containing exhibits that focus on the people, places, and events related to the history of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Some exhibits include: "Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Lowcountry U.S.," "Somebody Had To Do It: First Children in School Desegregation," "The Charleston Hospital Workers Movement, 1968-1969," and more. | Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston |
| Lynching in America | An interactive website that contains several stories from families affected by lynching, a map of lynchings across the United States from 1877 to 1950, and other supplemental research materials. | Equal Justice Initiative |
| MAAP: Mapping the African American Past | A website that maps places that are relevant to African American history. Includes a library of images and lesson plans. Years range from 1632 to the present. | Columbia University |
| Making African Connections Digital Archive | A digital archive that provides access to 600 objects from multiple Africa colonial-era collections from museums in Sussex and Kent. | University of Sussex, the School of Global Studies, the Sussez Humanities Lab, the Sussex Africa Centre |
| Making of America | A "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." Contains over 60,000 books and journal articles. | University of Michigan |
| Malcolm X in Lansing | A website that explores how Malcolm X impacted the Lansing, Michigan area and how the community impacted him. Contains stories and mapped locations. | Dr. John Aerni-Flessner and class |