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) |
|---|---|---|
| Runaway Connecticut | A searchable database of runaway slave newspaper advertisements in the Connecticut Courant. Ads range from 1500s-1800s. | Wesleyan University |
| Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom, and Race in the eighteenth century | A searchable database of hundreds of newspaper advertisements seeking the return of runaway enslaved people in the 1700s in Great Britain. | University of Glasgow |
| Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection | A digital archive of over 10,000 anti-slavery materials from Reverend Samuel Joseph May's collection. The collection is important to the abolitionist movement in the United States. Includes over pamphlets, sermons, Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, position papers, poetry, Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes, and offprints. | Cornell University |
| SankofaGen | A collection of historical and genealogical data relating to enslaved persons in the US. | SankofaGen |
| Sapelo Square | An online forum that focuses on the experiences of Black Muslims in the United States. Contains content on arts and culture, politics, history, religion, and more. | Sapelo Square |
| Scarlet and Black Digital Archive | The Scarlet and Black Digital Archive at Rutgers University documents African American history in New Jersey. Our digital collections illuminate the history of slavery in New Jersey through primary sources such as runaway slave ads, birth records of enslaved children in Middlesex County, manumission records, and slave sale receipts that document slaveholding among Rutgers officers and benefactors. Our collections also highlight early Black alumni at Rutgers College and Douglass College as well as the Black student protest movement at Rutgers-Camden. A collection of cartoons from the student magazine Chanticleer shows the racist imagery that awaited African Americans on campus in the 1920s. We explore local African American history in digital exhibits about the New Brunswick NAACP's anti-lynching campaign and the rise of the KKK in New Brunswick in the 1920s. Additionally, we have partnered with the Mount Zion AME Church of New Brunswick to digitize records from their Alice Jennings Archibald History Library. | Scarlet and Black Research Center at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University; Digital Archivist Jesse Bayker |
| Scuffalong: Genealogy. | A blog that explores the histories and experiences of Lisa Y. Henderson's ancestors. Lineage focuses on Wilson County, North Carolina (NC). | Lisa Y. Henderson |
| Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project | This large project includes photographs, biographies, maps, and videos of oral histories relating to the Civil Rights movements in Seattle, Washington. | University of Washington |