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) |
|---|---|---|
| No Longer Yours: Slavery and Freedom Seeking in North Carolina | This project explores the world of the enslaved and highlights the freedom-seekers of North Carolina. This project can be approached through three central units: Interactive Maps, Story Maps, and the No Longer Yours: Aspects of Slavery and Freedom-Seeking in North Carolina Study Book. Each of the three blends together while simultaneously serving as independent projects. Thus, one does not have to view all of the units to learn about slavery in North Carolina, although exploring each unit is encouraged. | Brian Robinson |
| Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI) | An online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. Includes indexes of various sources including private narratives, newspaper accounts, manumissions, birth certifications, ship inventories, legal documents, census records, cemetery records, slave trade transactions, and more. | Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative (NSRC) |
| Notable Kentucky African Americans Database | A searchable database of biographies of African Americans who are/were from Kentucky and relevant places and events. Also provides additional references for each entry. | University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center |
| O Say Can You See: Early Washington DC, Law, and Family | Documents the challenge to slavery and the quest for freedom in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862, as well as tracing the multigenerational family networks they reveal. | University of Nebraska Lincoln, Indiana University, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities |
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| On The Books - Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance | A project that examines legislation that was signed into law between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. Uses text mining to identify racist language within those laws. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries |
| Ontario Black History | Explores the Black communities and individuals who lived in Ontario. Provides information on the Oro, Garafraxa communities. Contains photos, biographies, documents, and a listing of additional resources. | Our Digital World |
| Open-Access African-American Literature Corpus, 1853-1923 | A blog post describing and linking to an open-access collection of African American Literature, with publication dates ranging from 1853-1923. | Dr. Amardeep Singh |