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 Stemma Report | A podcast about African-American history that you may have missed. | Project McRae |
| The Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas | An interactive map that identifies the locations of the unmapped Black settlements of Texas. These Texas communities (also known as Freedmen's Towns) were originally founded by the formerly enslaved from 1866-1920. | Dr. Andrea Roberts |
| The Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project (TCRBR) | The Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project (the TCRBR Project for short) merges history, genealogy, census records, and maps to spatially contextualize the stories of rural black residents in Tompkins County between 1820 & 1870. To do this, the project brings together, historical maps, census records, & other documentation, to reconstruct aspects of life for black residents in the 19th-century. | Ethan P. Dickerman (with support from Cornell University's Rural Humanities Initiative) |
| The Valley of the Shadow | A digital collection that contains Freedmen's Bureau Records for those who lived in Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania from Fall 1859 to Fall 1870. Includes letters, diaries, newspapers, maps, images, census records, and veteran records. | Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia Library |
| They Had Names | A website dedicated to providing information on African Americans in pre-Emancipation records in Liberty County, Georgia. Contains summaries and transcripts of Liberty County documents from the Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Georgia Department of Archives and History, FamilySearch.org, and Ancestry.com | Stacy Ashmore Cole |
| Transcribing the Freedmen's Bureau Papers | A project that transcribes every word of every the document in the Freedmen's Bureau Papers | NMAAHC Smithsonian Transcription Center |
| Twenty Years of Religious Racism in Brazil | A project that documents intolerance against Afro-Brazilian religions. Analyzes 300 cases of religious intolerance against Afro-Brazilian faiths that have taken place since 2000. Includes a report, spreadsheet of cases, and interactive maps. | International Commission to Combat Religious Racism |
| Umbra Search | A project that makes African American history more broadly accessible, by bringing together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country. | Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections, with Penumbra Theatre Company. |