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) |
|---|---|---|
| Mapping the Haitian Revolution | An interactive project that provides a map and timeline of the Haitian Revolution. | Stephanie Curci and Chris Jones |
| Mapping the Stacks | A project that catalogs collections and develops findings aids for Chicago archives that focus on Black history. Collections include those from the Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, and more. | Dr. Jacqueline Goldsby |
| Marian Cheek Jackson Center Oral History Trust | A website that contains interviews from residents of historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Neighborhoods include Northside, Pine Knolls, Pottersfield, Sunset, Lloyd/Borad, and Tin Top. | Marian Cheek Jackson Center Oral History Trust |
| Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) | A website that displays fugitive slave notices from the "Affiches américaines" newspaper in Saint-Domingue (today known as Haiti) from 1766-1790 and other records relating to slavery in the French Atlantic world. | French Atlantic History Group (McGill University, Mellon Foundation), Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Sherbrooke |
| Maryland African American Heritage Map | Only 2% of the 95,000 entries on the National Register of Historic Places focus on the African American experience. The Museum of Virtual Reality powered by VRCOLAB is leading the fight to digitally preserve African American Cultural Heritage sites and experiences. The super power of the Metaverse and Digital Twin Technology is to show so much more of the full American story than we ever could before. | Aaron Rice, Founder/CEO Virtual Reality Collaboration Lab (VRCOLAB) |
| Maryland: Charles county Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders | An indexing project which lists names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in Charles County, Maryland. | American Origins LLC |
| Massacres in US History | A listing of many of the massacres that have occurred throughout the history of the United States. | Zinn Education Project |
| McGowan Funeral Home | A searchable database of records from the McGowan Funeral Home, a Black-owned funeral home that operated in Dallas, Texas (TX) from the 1955 to the 1990s. | African American Genealogical Interest Group (Dallas, TX), Dallas Genealogical Society |