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 Learning Tree: A Gordon Parks Archive Project | An online, in-progress archive that helps users explore Gordon Parks's "The Learning Tree" novel and film. | Kansas State University |
| The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation | A project that acknowledges the relationship between African Americans and the university of the course of 300 years. This includes contributions of enslaved African Americans to the university of William & Mary. The project is named after a man named Lemon who was enslaved by the university. | The College of William & Mary |
| The Madam C.J. Walker Collection | Digital collection contains business records, materials from buildings in the Walker Building, photos, and personal papers of Madam Walker, A'Lelia Walker, Freeman B. Random, and others. | Indiana Historical Society |
| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute | An institute that houses the King Papers Project, a curriculum related to the African American Freedom Struggle, and a searchable database, and supports educational activities. Documents include published and unpublished materials, speeches, correspondence, sermons, photographs, and chronologies. The database includes thousands of King documents. | Dr. Clayborne Carson, Stanford University |
| The Mixtape Museum | An archive that collects, preserves, and shares knowledge related to mixtape history. | Regan Sommer McCoy |
| The Montgomery Bus Boycott: They Changed The World | A look at the events that occurred after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Includes oral histories, newspaper front pages, biographies, and photos. | Montgomery Advertiser |
| The Nat Turner Project | A digital archive containing historical documents and information about the Southampton County slave revolt of 1831, led by Nat Turner. | Dr. Sarah Roth, Meredith College |
| The Nicest Kids in Town | A digital project that provides information on the early history of "American Bandstand" and examines its continued discrimination against Black teenagers from 1952 to 1964 in Philadelphia. Contains video clips, newspaper clippings, and photographs. | Dr. Matthew F. Delmont |