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 Black Press In 19th-Century Canada & Beyond | Explores the role of the Canadian Black Press in "the design of cultural and race relations in Canada." Includes newspaper articles from "The Dawn of Tomorrow" newspaper and links to other newspapers. | Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri |
| The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive | A digital archive that shares the works created by and about Charles Chesnutt. Contains images and text. | Dr. Stephanie Browner, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| The Church in the Southern Black Community | A digital collection of church documents, biographies, sermons, and histories from various locations in the United States. The collection focuses on how the southern Black community experienced evangelical Christianity. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) |
| 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 |