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) |
|---|---|---|
| Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1820 | A database that contains information about enslaved people who were brought to Louisiana (LA) in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes names, family relationships, testimonies, ages, occupations, emancipations, places of origin, and more. | Dr. Gwendolyn Hall, ibiblio.org |
| Afterlives of AIDS: Oral Histories of Black Women living and aging with HIV | The collection documents the relations between health care policy and practices and the lived experiences of older Black women living and aging with HIV in the Washington, DC region. It contains twelve oral history interviews, associated transcripts, portraits of the interviewees, and measures 1.36 GB. The interviews were conducted between 2018-2019 by Thurka Sangaramoorthy, PhD, MPH, as part of her Afterlives of AIDS oral history project. Portraits were taken by Aamir Khuller. | Thurka Sangaramoorthy |
| Against All Odds - The First Black Legislators in Mississippi | Provides information about the first African American men to serve on Mississippi's state legislature during and after Reconstruction. Information includes biographical information, references to census records and newspapers, and term lengths. | DeeDee Baldwin (Mississippi State University Libraries) |
| Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union | A digital exhibit that chronicles the African American experience at the Harvard Business School (HBS) from 1915 to 1990 and celebrates the formation of the Business School's African-American Student Union (AASU). | Harvard Business School |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson Reads | A project that recovers the "bibliophilic history of Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)." It offers transcriptions of Dunbar-Nelson's reading journals, which share information books and other literature she read over the course of 20 years. | Dr. Jesse Ryan Erickson |
| Alternative Campus Tours | A listing of alternative campus tours that focus on various aspects of African American History, including the Civil Rights Movement and Slavery. | Dr. Hilary N. Green |
| American Panorama: The Forced Migration of Enslaved People | An interactive map that illustrates the forced migrations of Enslaved people from 1810 to 1860. Provides state and county-level data, as well as narratives and graphs. Part of a larger project called American Panorama. | University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab |
| American Slavery Documents | Various personal and legal documents, including manumission papers, bills of sale, auction notices, etc. Representative of every state in the American South, but also includes documents from New Jersey and New York. | Duke University Libraries |