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) |
|---|---|---|
| Race and Slavery Petitions Project | A searchable collection of data extracted from 18th and 19th century documents from the slaveholding states of the US and DC. Data relates to enslaved peoples, free people of color, and whites. Information comes from wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, legislative petitions, county court petitions, and more. | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Race Riots and Chicago in 1919 | A digital exhibit that puts Chicago's race riots into the context of national and international history in 1919. Explore the events that led up to the Chicago Race Riots. | Chicago History Museum (Chicago Collections), University of Illinois at Chicago, Newberry Library |
| Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection | A digital collection containing about 500 portraits of African Americans. Material types include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and cabinet cards. | Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University |
| Real Black Grandmothers | A digital archive that tells the diverse stories of Black grandmothers and their grandchildren. This project intends to reverse the stereotypes and archetypes that have been placed on Black grandmothers for centuries by showcasing grandmothers' humanity and complexity. Archive contains cultural artifacts and living and oral histories. | Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman |
| Reclaiming Our African Roots | "a grassroots effort... that will make more historic records searchable, preserve cemeteries, and other things that will help people bridge their family back to Africa." | FamilySearch |
| Recovering Hayti | Maps over 200 homes and businesses in the historically Black neighborhood of Hayti that was located in Durham, NC. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Reframing Resistance: 1858 | A project, centered on the history of the Black abolitionist resistance, examines two events that occurred during 1858: the rescue of Sylvanus Demarest in Chatham, Canada West and the Oberlin-Wellington rescue of John Price. | |
| Remembering Rondo | A History Harvest | A digital archive that explores the history of the Rondo community of St. Paul, Minneapolis. Contains contributions from former and current Rondo residents, including photographs and memorabilia. | Rondo Avenue, Inc. and Macalester College |