Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources
A list of projects, resources, events, and anything else.
Started by @CCP_org. | Short link: bit.ly/Black-DH-List
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AADHUM Synergies at the University of Maryland
AAS 21 Repertoire – Princeton African American Studies
A Call to Negro Women: A (Little Known) Black Feminist Manifesto
A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
A Red Record – Revealing lynching sites in North Carolina
‘A Shaky Truce’ : Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980
African Activist Archive Project
African American AIDS History Project
African American Civil War Soldiers Project
African American Civil War Soldiers — Zooniverse
African American Experience in Athens
*African American Oral History Collection (Louisville, Ky.)
African-American Poets of the 19th Century
African American Poetry (1870-1926): A Digital Anthology
African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project
African Americans & the US Presidency
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
Against All Odds – The First Black Legislators in Mississippi
Africana Memoirs: Database of Black Women’s Autobiography
Africana Digital Humanities institute
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy Database
Alternate Campus Tours (This site highlights the connection between African American history, slavery, and university campuses)
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Panorama: The Forced Migration of Enslaved People
American Slavery Documents / Duke Digital Repository
Anguilla Archaeological and Historical Society
Anthologies of African American Writing
Apartheid Heritages: The Spatial History of South Africa’s Black Townships
The Atlantic World Archive (@theatlanticworldarchive)
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
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Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth
Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
“Black Code.” The Black Scholar, 47(3)
“Black DH” Special Issue, Reviews in Digital Humanities (3.4)
Black Drama Collection | Textual Optics Lab
Real Black Grandmothers: Black Grandmother Stories
Black in Appalachia: Community History Digital Archive
Black Liberation 1969 Digital Archive
Black Issues, Policing, Protest Zines | Sherwood Forest Zine Library
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Black Panthers Digital Collections
*Black Periodical Literature Project
Black Power! 19th Century Newark
The Black Press in 19th-century Canada and Beyond
Black Press Research Collective
Black Research Archive on the Internet: Toward a research program for eBlack Studies
The Black Short Story Dataset – Vol. 1
Black Solidarity Day | Brief History
Black Sound Lab – Amplifying Black Life Through Digital Practice
Black Studies & Digital Humanities Dataverse
Black Writing and Thought Collection | Textual Optics Lab
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
Bronzeville Historical Society
Bronx African American Oral History Project
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California African American Museum
The Caribbean Diaspora Project
Caribbean, Digital History Course (multiple versions, at UWI St. Augustine)
Caribbean, Making of Caribbean Feminisms Project
Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS; Open Access, from IGDS, UWI St. Augustine)
Carisealand – Sustainable Caribbean Futures
Cassey & Dickerson Friendship Album Project
Celebrating Simms: The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School
The Celia Project: A Research Collaboration on the History of Slavery and Sexual Violence
Chicory Digital Archive (Magazine of African American Poetry in Baltimore, 1966-1983)
Lesson plans and workshop ideas using Chicory
Follow Chicory on Instagram @Chicory_Baltimore
Choptank River Heritage (Maryland’s Eastern Shore; maps)
The Church of Black Feminist Thought
Civil Rights in Black and Brown
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Civil Rights in Southeast North Carolina: The School, the Market, and the Ballot Box
Claude McKay’s Early Poetry (1911-1922)
The Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre
Compton 125 Historical Society
Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past
Create Caribbean Research Institute
Critical Race and Digital Studies – Syllabus & Publications & Public Works
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Data Fail: Teaching Data Literacy with African Diaspora Digital Humanities
The David Walker Lupton African American Cookbook Collection
The David Walker Memorial Project
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
*Digital Blackness Conference (videos on YouTube)
The Digital Colored American Magazine
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Digital Library on American Slavery
Distributed AI Research Institute
*Diversifying the Digital Historical Record
Documenting Venture Smith Project
Douglass Global Decentralized OS | The Beloved Community License
Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry
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Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
eBlackCU: A Collaborative Portal on African American Experiences in Champaign-Urbana
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac
Editorial Networks of the Antebellum African American Press
Emmett Till Archives | DigiNole
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Ethics and Archiving the Web, March 22nd-24th, 2018
Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection
Experiment – Encrypted & Vulnerable
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Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom
Feast Afrique —Digital Library
F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors Obtained through the U.S.
Fort Negley Descendants Project
Frances Harper | The Frances Project
The Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
Frederick Douglass on the Eastern Shore (Blog and forthcoming book)
Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. The Lion of Anacostia (Blog and book)
Freedom’s Ring: King’s I have a Dream Speech
From the American Revolution to the Negro American Revolution
Funk, God, Jazz, Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn [public art exhibit]
Freedom in Full Bloom: Juneteenth History Resources
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The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
The Global Timbuktu Project of Rutgers University Center for African Studies
Goin’ North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia
The Green Book of South Carolina
The Great Migration Project: A City Transformed
Guide to Black History | National Archives
Guide to the Harlem Renaissance at the Library of Congress
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The Haitian Atlantic: A Literary Geography
Hallowed Grounds: Race, Slavery and the University of Alabama
Harlem Education History Project [site under maintenance as of 1/22]
The Hartford Black History Project
Harvard’s Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union
Harvard Business School’s Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism Exhibit
Harvard Business School’s Women, Enterprise and Society Collection
The Henry McNeal Turner Project
Hiphop Archive & Research Institute | Rebuild, Respect, Represent
Hughes Estate Map · Hughes Archeological Research Project
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Index of African American History in the JAH
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Independent Voices : An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press
Islands in the North: Making Space and Place in Black Toronto
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Jean Toomer’s Cane: Digital Edition
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
Jubilo! The Emancipation Century
Just Teach One: Early African American Print
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Kennedy Prints! A Letterpress Printery
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La Gazette Royale – A Journey Through Haiti’s Early Print Culture
Lantern Project Montgomery County Probate Court
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
The Learning Tree: A Gordon Parks Archive Project
Life x Code: DH Against Enclosure
Lost Friends: Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate
Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones’s Short Fiction
Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Love and Suspense in Paris Noir
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Making Africa – Vitra Designer Exhibition
Making African Connections Digital Archive
Mapping the Bicentennial International Exposition: Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1949-1950)
Mapping Memories of Africville
Mapping the Haitian Revolution
MAAP: Mapping the African American Past
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute
Mississippi Civil Rights Project
Mississippi Historical Markers
Memorable Days: The Emilie Davis Diaries
Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities
More than Just a Building: The Kenyatta International Convention Center
Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica
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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
National Center on Race and Digital Justice
NEH-ODH IATH: Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies
The New Map of Empire: Charting Contested Caribbean Space (MapScholar)
The New York African Free School Collection (NYHS)
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1750-1865
The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History
Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI)
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The Oak of Jerusalem: Flight, Refuge, and Reconnaissance in the Great Dismal Swamp
Obeah Histories | Researching Prosecution for Religious Practice in the Caribbean
On The Books – Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance
On These Grounds: Slavery and the University
Open-Access African-American Literature Corpus, 1853-1923
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The Panther and the Lash: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic
Path to “Visible Glory”: The Million Man March in the Redmond Collection
Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection
Payne Theological Seminary and A.M.E. Church Archive
People Not Property: Slave Deeds, Digital Library on American Slavery
Photographic Life of Harriet: Tubman’s Life in Pictures
Preserve The Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project
The Princeton & Slavery Project
Printing Hate: How white-owned newspapers incited racial terror in America
The Project on the History of Black Writing
Putting Them on the Map: Mapping the Agents of the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company + map
PVAMU HBCU Voting Rights Lab – Center for Race and Justice
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Queering Slavery Working Group
Quilting African American Experiences in Northeast Ohio
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Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
Race and Slavery Petitions Project
Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Conference (archived page)
Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia, 1877-1927
Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
Remembering Rondo | A History Harvest
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination
Rhythm of Wisdom Podcasting
Rice University Between Decisions: From Co-education to Integration (1957-1970)
1853 Richmond and its Slave Market
Robert Penn Warren’s Who Speaks for the Negro: An Archival Collection
Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century
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The Say It Loud Project (@SayItLoud_NN) / Twitter
Searchable Museum (NMAAHC)
See you when I see you: Black Student Life at UCSC 1965-present
Sharing Our Legacy Dance Theatre
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Slave Streets, Free Streets: Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore
Slavers Of New York (@slaversofny)
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Slavery and the Making of the University (UNC-CH)
Slavery Database | George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee
Sojourner Truth School of Social Change Leadership
South Adams Street @ 1900 | an historic ypsilanti african-american neighborhood
Starkville Civil Rights, 1960-1980
Sundown Towns – History and Social Justice
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Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project
Texas Freedom Texas Domestic Slave Trade ProjectColonies Project
The Third Chapter Project, Inc.
Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells
Tufts University’s African American Trail
Twenty Years of Religious Racism in Brazil
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Umbra Search African American History
*Unknown No Longer | Virginia Historical Society
(Un)Silencing Slavery: Remembering the Enslaved at Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica
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Virginia African American Historic Sites Database
Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative
Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project
1875 Voter Registration Books | historydiy
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
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Walter O. Evans collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers
The Ward: Race and Class in DuBois’ Seventh Ward
*Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn [1919-2015] (finding aid)
William Still: An African-American Abolitionist
William Still’s Philadelphia – Celebrating the 200th Birthday of the Abolitionist and Activist
Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance (1900-1922)
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Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
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The Zine Guide: African-American & Black Voices
Pay-Walled Resources
African American Experience , 1693-1830 (Readex)
African American Historical Serials Collection (EBSCO)
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex)
Afro-Americana imprints, 1535-1922: from the Library Company of Philadelphia
*American Broadsides and Ephemera. Series I (Readex)
*American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)
*American Consumer Culture : Market Research & American Business, 1935-1965 (Adam Matthew)
*AncestryLibrary.com (ProQuest)
*Archive of Americana (Readex)
*Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection. Series 1 (EBSCO)
*Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2 (EBSCO)
*Associated Press Collections Online (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Black Abolitionist Papers (ProQuest)
* Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest) (now open access)
* Black Studies Center (ProQuest)
* Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street)
*Colonial State Papers (ProQuest)
*Declassified Documents Reference System (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
*Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
*Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street)
*Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Gateway to North America : People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York (EBSCO)
*The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs (ProQuest)
*The Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Gale Cengage Learning)
*The Making of the Modern World (Gale Cengage Learning)
*NAACP papers (ProQuest)
*Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 (Adam Matthew)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Black Newspapers (ProQuest)
*Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Slavery & Anti-Slavery : A Transnational Archive (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Smithsonian collections online (Gale Cengage Learning)
*Social and Cultural History : Letters and Diaries Online (Alexander Street)
* Women and Social Movements (ProQuest)