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) |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Still Digital Edition | This documentary edition of the Peter Still Papers is a lightly edited reconstruction of a manuscript collection held in Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries in New Jersey. These letters chronicle the efforts of Peter Still (1801-1868), a former slave, to purchase the freedom of his wife and three children. | Project team at Rutgers University Libraries led by Francesca Giannetti |
| Picturing Black History | A joint project between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images that aims to "uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant moments by bringing them into the light and into view." | Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images |
| Placing Segregation | A website that explores geographical patterns of residential segregation in American cities during the 1800s. | University of Iowa |
| Preserve The Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project | A digital repository that "seeks to preserve and make accessible original content that was captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to protests against police brutality, vigilantism, and racial injustice and inequality." Project was created in response to the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015. | Maryland Center for History and Culture |
| Princeton and Slavery | A website that explores the relationship between Princeton University and slavery. | Princeton University |
| Project McRae | An interactive website that explores the experiences of the descendants of Moses McRae. This African American lineage originates from Montgomery County, Georgia. | Project McRae (JW & Co) |
| Quilting African American Experiences in Northeast Ohio | A digital project that focuses on places and experiences relating to African Americans in Northeast Ohio. | Students of ENGL 266 African American Literature at Lorain County Community College, Ohio |
| Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South | Digital archive that focuses Jim Crow laws in Charlottesville, Virginia (VA) between the 1880s to the mid-1900s. Includes photographs, letters, regional censuses, oral histories, newspapers, and more. | University of Virginia, Virginia Center for Digital History, The Carter G. Woodson Institute. |