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) |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative | The names of millions of African Americans--free and enslaved--who lived, worked, worshiped, loved, and died in Virginia, are buried deep in the archival records and manuscript collections housed at the Library of Virginia. Virginia Untold: African American Narrative seeks to find these long silent voices. Whether contained in local court and state government records, private papers and business records, or newspapers and journals from the time, the untold narrative of a people is waiting to be discovered. | Library of Virginia |
| Virtual Bethel | A virtual tour of Bethel AME Church in the Indiana Avenue Jazz District in Indianapolis, Indiana. | Indiana University |
| Virtual Harlem | The Virtual Harlem Project (VHp) is a collaborative learning network whose purpose is to study the Harlem Renaissance, an important period in African American literary history, through the construction of a virtual reality scenario that represents Harlem, New York as it existed between the 1920-30s. | Central Missouri State University, University of Missouri, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Arizona |
| Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project | A virtual project that allows scholars, students, and citizens to experience and explore Martin Luther King, Jr's February 1960 speech, "A Creative Protest," also known as the "Fill Up the Jails" speech. | NC State University, vMLK Project Team |
| Visualizing Abolition: A Digital History of the Suppression of the African Slave Trade | A digital project that uses over 30,000 letters between the British Foreign Office, British ministers, commissioner, and others to map the and elimination of the African Slave Trade. Contains a searchable database of the correspondence, essays on British abolitionism, and images of documents, people, ships, and locations. | University of Missouri, Rice University |
| Visualizing Early Baltimore | A fully 3D, interactive digital model of Baltimore, circa 1815, that provides connections between the past and today. Focuses on the lives of free and enslaved people in Baltimore in the 19th century. | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| Visualizing Emancipation | Maps interactions between various groups during the Civil War, including enslaved peoples, armies and explores the effect of policies and battles on these groups. | Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond |
| Visualizing the Red Summer | Showcases data and "geographically dispersed" archival material about the events of "Red Summer," a series of lynchings and riots that occurred during the summer of 1919 across the United States. Includes a timeline and map, archive, and additional resources. | Karen Sieber |