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) |
|---|---|---|
| St. Louis Argus | This collection contains digitized and enhanced issues of the St. Louis Argus scanned from micro-film for the years 1915-1926. The St. Louis Argus, while not technically the 'first' black newspaper in St. Louis, became the most recognizable name in the black journalism locally for much of the 20th century. | Mark Loehrer |
| Storefront Churches in Buffalo | Photographs by Buffalo photographer Milton Rogovin (1909-2011) of African-American members of storefront churches in Buffalo, NY. This small collection chiefly focuses on the musical activities during the church services. The photographs are from a series by Rogovin titled Storefront Churches 1958-61. It was with this series that Rogovin began his career as a photographer. | The Libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Stories from the First Great Migration in Philadelphia | Contains 21 oral history interviews with Black who migrated to Philadelphia from the south in the early 1900s. Interviews were conducted in the 1980s by Charles Hardy. Website also serves as a digital archive of images and newspaper articles to contextualize the interviews. | West Chester University |
| Student Project on Second Ward oral history collection | This oral history project, conducted by graduate students at UNC Charlotte from 2004-2006, sought to document the historic Black neighborhood of Second Ward in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Brooklyn, which was torn down by the city in the 1960s as part of urban renewal. | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| sx salon | A digital platform that offers creative explorations of Caribbean literature. | Dr. Rachel L. Mordecai, Dr. Ronald Cummings, Dr. Rosamond S. King |
| Tableau Racial Equity Data Hub | The Racial Equity Data Hub has been designed as a platform for local organizations and advocates doing the work of addressing institutionalized racism in their communities. It is being built to connect them with relevant data, analyses, tools from experts, and each other to advance the use of data in this work. | Channing Nesbitt and Neal Myrick |
| Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project | A project that maps Texas slave trade routes in Matagorda County, Texas. | University of Texas at Austin |
| Texas Slavery Project | A project that looks at the expansion of slavery in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico between 1837 and 1845. Includes an interactive map, searchable database, and primary sources. | Virginia Center for Digital History |