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) |
|---|---|---|
| Memorable Days: The Emilie Davis Diaries | A website that contains transcriptions of Emilie Davis' diaries for the years of 1863, 1864, and 1865. Emilie Davis was an African American woman who lived in Philadelphia while the Civil War was in-progress. | Villanova University, Falvey Memorial Library |
| Millican Massacre, 1868 | Focuses on the Millican Race Massacre of 1868, which occurred in Millican, Texas, near Texas A&M University. The digital archive includes newspapers and maps relating to the event. | Dr. Amy E. Earhart, Dr. Nigel Lepianka |
| Mississippi Civil Rights Project | An "ongoing project to chronicle the extraordinary efforts of local people who organized to combat Mississippi's Jim Crow segregation, as well as the complex network of white resistance trying to maintain it." Provides videos, writing, images, and primary documents. | |
| MIT Black History | A digital archive that documents Black Life at MIT since its founding in 1861. Contains images, oral histories, and publications | |
| Monroe Work Today | Displays information and narratives regarding the lynchings that Monroe Nathan Work noted in his book, the Negro Year Book. Project also accompanied by maps and other visuals. Allows users to explore information on lynchings that occurred all over the United States | auut studio |
| Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica | A project that analyzes Hans Sloane's "Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica" (1707), a piece of music that provides insight into the musical traditions of those who survived the Middle Passage. Musical recordings that have reconstructed this music are available to listen to on the site. | Laurent Dubois, David Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold |
| NC Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1750-1865 | A searchable database of more than 2000 newspaper advertisements seeking the return of runaway enslaved people from 1750-1865 in North Carolina. | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Negro Travelers' Green, Book | A digital project that explores the Spring 1956 issue of the Greek Book. Includes a Google Map that illustrates over 1500 listings from the issue and a searchable version which containing all of the issue's listings. | University of South Carolina University Libraries |