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 Reparational Genealogy Project | Genealogists volunteer on Ancestry to collaboratively research trees for lynched, famous and wrongfully-convicted black America. The trees are then moved to FamilySearch & made available to descendants & cousins. We teach family members how to continue the research & serve as consultants for life. | Carolynn ni Lochlainn |
| The Slave State of Jones | A project that contains research about African Americans from Jones and Covington Counties in Mississippi. | Karmella Haynes-Ferrell |
| The Soul of Reason Collection | A collection of over 250 recordings from "Soul of Reason," a radio show hosted by Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. from 1971 to 1986. The radio show episodes covered music, art, business, sports, theater, and a variety of other topics as it related to African American, Puerto Rican, and African communities. | New York University Libraries |
| The Southern Migration of the Keeton and Chafer Family | A family history website about the Keeton and Chafer families of Texas. | kYmberly Keeton |
| The Stemma Report | A podcast about African-American history that you may have missed. | Project McRae |
| The Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas | An interactive map that identifies the locations of the unmapped Black settlements of Texas. These Texas communities (also known as Freedmen's Towns) were originally founded by the formerly enslaved from 1866-1920. | Dr. Andrea Roberts |
| The Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project (TCRBR) | The Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project (the TCRBR Project for short) merges history, genealogy, census records, and maps to spatially contextualize the stories of rural black residents in Tompkins County between 1820 & 1870. To do this, the project brings together, historical maps, census records, & other documentation, to reconstruct aspects of life for black residents in the 19th-century. | Ethan P. Dickerman (with support from Cornell University's Rural Humanities Initiative) |
| The Valley of the Shadow | A digital collection that contains Freedmen's Bureau Records for those who lived in Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania from Fall 1859 to Fall 1870. Includes letters, diaries, newspapers, maps, images, census records, and veteran records. | Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia Library |