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) |
|---|---|---|
| Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library | A digital collection that highlights over 1000 items centered on Black History and culture. Collection materials range from 1780 to 1910 and include photos, newspapers, broadsides, fiction, biographies, pamphlets, poetry and more. The website also provides contextual essays and teaching resources. | Harvard University, Houghton Library |
| Slaves and Free Blacks in Russell County, Virginia | Transcriptions and scanned images of various resources relating to enslaved and free Black people in Russell County, Virginia (VA). Resources include: Freedmen's Bureau, Indenture Records; Freedmen's Bureau, Miscellaneous Records; Freedmen's Bureau, Education Records; Slaves in the 1850 Census; Slaves in the 1860 Census; Blacks and Mulattos in the 1870 Census; Blacks and Mulattos in the 1880 Census; Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in Law Order Books, 1853-1867; Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in Will Books, 1835-1865; Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in Death Records, 1853-1866; Slaves and Free Blacks born before 1865, mentioned in Death Records, 1912-1961; Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in Birth Records, 1853-1862; Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in the 1860 Mortality Schedule; and Slaves and Free Blacks mentioned in Newspaper Articles. | Gregory Lepore |
| Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860 | A digital collection containing reports, arguments, trials, cases, proceedings, journals and other documents relating to the enslaved and the court system. Items start from the 19th Century. | Library of Congress |
| SlaveSearch | A searchable database of over half a million records on free persons of color and enslaved peoples in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Includes information from Runaway Slave Ads, Yale University Slave Records, Freedman's Bureau Records, the Virginia State Library, New York Slavery Records Index, Geography of Slavery project, Texas Runaway Slave Project, Freedom on the Move project, Runaway Connecticut project, Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery, North Carolina State University Runaway Slave Advertisements, Tax Lists, Manumissions, Sales, Free Negro Lists, Freedom Certificates, African Voyages Names Database, Louisiana Slave Database, Federal Census and Slave Schedules, and Miscellaneous Slave Records. | N/A |
| SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work | A website that explores the history and examines the legacy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Includes photos, oral history interviews, audiovisual materials, a map, individual profiles, and more. | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Legacy Project, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke University Libraries |
| South Carolina Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders | An indexing project which lists names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in South Carolina. | American Origins LLC |
| South Side Home Movie Project | A digital archive that contains digitized home movies that have been archived by the South Side Home Movie Project. Includes small-gauge films from the 1920s to the 1980s. Browse by collections, topics, places, subjects, years, and more. | Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago |
| Southern Oral History Program | A website that contains interviews from southerners with marginalized voices and those who have made great contributions to humanity. Interviews start from 1974. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |