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.
401 Search Result(s)
| Project Name | Description | Creator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People | The project focus is on Cleveland, Ohio's first Black welfare institution. | James M. Blockett III |
| The David Walker Memorial Project | A digital project that memorializes and celebrates the work and life of David Walker. Provides information on David's life, "David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World," information about Boston's Blac community, and links to resources. | Community Change, Inc. |
| The Digital Colored American Magazine | An archive of full-color reproductions of issues from the "Colored American Magazine," which rain from 1900 to 1909. Many of these issues are fully searchable. | Dr. Brian Sweeney and Dr. Eurie Dahn |
| The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences | A website that listings African Americans who have contributed to the fields of science and engineering. Categorizes individuals by title (ie. biochemist, biologist, chemist, physicist, engineer, entomologist, geneticist, inventor, mathematician, computer scientist, meteorologist, medical, veterinarian, geologist, oceanographer, protozoologist, or zoologist) and by accomplishment. | Princeton University |
| The Fredrick Douglass Papers | A digitized collection of thousands of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies, speeches, letters, portraits, and more. Collection also includes a searchable database for exploring the documents. | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| The Freedom Mosaic | A project that contains stories and oral histories relating to Civil Rights and Human Rights. | National Center for Civil & Human Rights |
| The Geography of Slavery in Virginia | Advertisements for servants and slaves who ran away or were captured. Content comes from 18th-19th century Virginia newspapers. | The University of Virginia |
| The Great Migration Project: A City Transformed (1916-1930) | A project that explores the "historic tide of African Americans moving North that changed Philadelphia, America, and the world. | Scribe Video Center, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage |