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) |
|---|---|---|
| Malcolm X: The Movie | A website that details information about Malcolm X's life, including primary documents, photos, chronology, transcripts, and resources that reference Malcolm X. | Twenty-First Century Books |
| Mapping Marronage | Interactive visualizations that present the trans-Atlantic networks of enslaved individuals from the 18th and 19th centuries. Traces geographies of flight from plantations and personal connections with others via autobiographies, letters, and more. | Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel |
| Mapping Memories of Africville | An interactive map that shares the memories and cultural activism of the former residents of Africville, a historic Black Nova Scotian community. Contains documents and oral histories. | Danielle Mahon |
| Mapping Police Violence | A project that maps and analyzes data relating to police violence against individuals in the United States | Mapping Police Violence, Inc. |
| Mapping Slavery | Provides maps which pinpoint historical places relating to slavery on maps of the Dutch colonial empire. Also includes images and education materials. | Mapping Slavery |
| Mapping the Bicentennial International Exposition: Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1949-1950) | An interactive map that visualizes statues, parks, entertainment, pavilions, government buildings, exhibits, and scenic views that were significant to the Bicentennial International Exposition in Port-au-Prince, Haiti | Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert |
| Mapping the Destruction of Tennessee's African American Neighborhoods | Provides modern maps with historic overlays for African American neighborhoods that were affected by Urban Renewal. Neighborhoods include Jefferson Street (Nashville), Capital Hill (Nasheville), Edgehill (Nashville), 9th Street (Chattanooga), South Memphis, and East Knoxville. | Tennessee State Library and Archives, Zachary Keith |
| Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau | A project that provides maps of the Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices, Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals, Freedmen's Savings and Trust, United States Colored Troops (USCT) Battle Sites, and Slaves and Freedmen of Indian Territory. Also includes resources for understanding Freedmen's Bureau records for each state. | Angela Walton-Raji, Toni Carrier |