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) |
|---|---|---|
| The Harriet Jacobs Papers | A collection that includes over 500 written documents by Harriet Jacobs, her daughter Louisa Matilda Jacobs, her John S. Jacobs, and from abolitionists and feminists. Documents range from 1813-1917. | Pace University |
| The Henry McNeal Turner Project | A project about Henry McNeal Turner, the 12th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, and his writings. | Dr. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis |
| The Jesuit Plantation Project | A project that explores the community of Jesuit-owned farms prior to a sale of 275 enslaved people in 1838, focusing on the lives of the enslaved individuals. | Dr. Sharon M. Leon |
| The Knotted Line | An "interactive, tactile laboratory for exploring the historical relationship between freedom and confinement in the geographic area of the United States." Includes educator resources. | Radical Imagination |
| The Learning Tree: A Gordon Parks Archive Project | An online, in-progress archive that helps users explore Gordon Parks's "The Learning Tree" novel and film. | Kansas State University |
| The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation | A project that acknowledges the relationship between African Americans and the university of the course of 300 years. This includes contributions of enslaved African Americans to the university of William & Mary. The project is named after a man named Lemon who was enslaved by the university. | The College of William & Mary |
| The Madam C.J. Walker Collection | Digital collection contains business records, materials from buildings in the Walker Building, photos, and personal papers of Madam Walker, A'Lelia Walker, Freeman B. Random, and others. | Indiana Historical Society |
| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute | An institute that houses the King Papers Project, a curriculum related to the African American Freedom Struggle, and a searchable database, and supports educational activities. Documents include published and unpublished materials, speeches, correspondence, sermons, photographs, and chronologies. The database includes thousands of King documents. | Dr. Clayborne Carson, Stanford University |