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 Oak of Jerusalem: Flight, Refuge, and Reconnaissance in the Great Dismal Swamp | Provides historical information regarding the Great Dismal Swamp (of Eastern North Carolina) and its people. Also displays various photos, illustrations, and maps of the Great Dismal Swamp. | Christy Hyman |
| The Panther and the Lash: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic | A digital poster that examines the influence of literary movements and small Black magazines on "canon development in Black American literature." | |
| The Photographic Life of Harriet Tubman | A project that explores the "visual life" of Harriet Tubman, analyzing her image in photographs and exploring illustrations of her. | John Hope Franklin Institute at Duke University |
| The Red Book of Houston | A project that visualizes the people and places described in "The Red Book of Houston." Contains a StoryMap that illustrates the locations of churches, Black-owned businesses, schools, and presents information about the lives of Black individuals living in Houston, Texas in 1915, 50 years after emancipation. | Rice University, Norie Guthrie, Dr. Fay Yarbrough, Dr. Rachael Pasierowska, Ryan Chow, Susanna Yau, Tanvi Jadhav |
| The Reparational Genealogy Project | Genealogists volunteer on Ancestry to collaboratively research trees for lynched, famous and wrongfully-convicted black America. The trees are then moved to FamilySearch & made available to descendants & cousins. We teach family members how to continue the research & serve as consultants for life. | Carolynn ni Lochlainn |
| The Slave State of Jones | A project that contains research about African Americans from Jones and Covington Counties in Mississippi. | Karmella Haynes-Ferrell |
| The Soul of Reason Collection | A collection of over 250 recordings from "Soul of Reason," a radio show hosted by Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. from 1971 to 1986. The radio show episodes covered music, art, business, sports, theater, and a variety of other topics as it related to African American, Puerto Rican, and African communities. | New York University Libraries |
| The Southern Migration of the Keeton and Chafer Family | A family history website about the Keeton and Chafer families of Texas. | kYmberly Keeton |