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) |
|---|---|---|
| Renewing Inequality: Family Displacements through Urban Renewal, 1950-1966 | A project that visualizes urban renewal and the displacements of hundreds and thousands of families. | University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab |
| Restore the Ancestors | A collection of surviving estate inventory records for Colonial and Charleston, South Carolina (1732-1872) | Lowcountry Africana, FamilySearch, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Fold3 |
| Restore the Ancestors 2019 | Help FamilySearch and the Center for Family History at the International African American Museum index records of interest for African American genealogy. | Project Coordinators are Angela Walton Raji, Toni Carrier, Alana Thevenet, Robin Renee Foster, William Durant and Candace Turpin. Organizational Sponsors are the Center for Family History at the International African American Museum, BlackProGen LIVE and FamilySearch. |
| Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination | An online exhibition that "explores portrayals of Turner in both the 19th and 20th centuries." | American Antiquarian Society and Lapidus Center for Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center |
| Rhythm of Wisdom Podcasting | A podcast by "an African American Muslim, former CIA officer, lyricist, and writer" who provides thoughtful conversations and recounts experiences of working in national security. | |
| Richard Pryor's Peoria | A digital project that offers a portal into the Peoria, Illinois world of Richard Pryor's first twenty years - a passageway into the material he reshaped in his comedy. | Dr. Scott Saul, UC-Berkeley's DLab, Stanford University's Spatial History Center |
| Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks For the Negro: An Archival Collection | A digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965. Includes digitized reel-to-reel recordings of interviews (with transcriptions) with several civil rights figures. | Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University |
| RSHHGG Lab: Online Index and Lab for the Revue de la Soci | A searchable index of 90 years of Revue de la Soci | Revue de la Soci |