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Advancing Social Justice through Community-Engaged Research
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Engaging a collaborative network of expert genealogists, cultural organizations, and community-based family historians, we will amplify the voices of people who have been telling their family stories for centuries, connect researchers and data partners with people seeking answers to family history questions, and expand access to data, resources, and information about enslaved African Americans.
The story of Race, Migration and Mobility in Hartford
by Fiona Vernal
An innovative digital history project that combines maps and history detective materials with original oral histories
Enacting archival justice in the digital era, this Freedpeople’s Digitization Project by Dr. Alisea Williams McLeod makes contraband camp registers publicly accessible.
Coloredconventions.org is your go-to place for materials on Black organizing, 1830-1890--including digital exhibits, teaching modules, events, & news
Supplementary sit on Omeka:
Collected documents from the Colored Conventions (1830-1890s)
Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. Formerly enslaved people placed these ads hoping to reconnect with family and loved ones for decades following emancipation. The ads serve as testaments to their enduring hope and determination to regain what was taken from them. As of today, we have recovered 5062 ads.
The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent. Explore citations now.
Open archive of artifacts from Americans' attics.
Everyday people are invited to contribute to History Harvest, in recognition that our public archives are still a work-in-progress. You can contribute to the inclusion of more voices and materials once relegated to the margins.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Located in Harlem, this is one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries-- a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.
Mapping Project from URichmond by Scott Nesbit that maps emancipation events from Official Records of Civil War, newspapers, and the like. A related project of interest maps Union occupation in Emancipation Era in the South:
preserves the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Michigan State University
New York Public Library's
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Guide
libguides.nypl.org/african-american-women-writers-of-the-19th-Century
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
To preserve and research records of enslaved people.
The GU272 Memory Project is the product of a collaboration among the GU272 descendants, the Georgetown Memory Project, and American Ancestors. This site provides a searchable online database of genealogical data for GU272 families, oral histories of more than 40 descendants, and educational material about genealogy.
ACTe Memorial Museum Commemorating Slavery
Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe (Caribbean)
The ACTe Memorial “Caribbean Center of Expression and Memory of Human Trafficking and Slavery” is located on the coast of Guadeloupe Island, in the space where the old Darboussier sugar factory operated. This was the largest sugar factory in the Antilles during the slave period.
Underground RR Historic Places
Underground Railroad historic sites across 20+ states open to visitors
Underground Railroad Experiences
A closer look at the stories of freedom seekers
Extracts from legislative & county court petitions, etc. regarding slavery & freedom; part of larger UNC-Greensboro Digital Library on American Slavery that includes digitized slave deeds and notices.
The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of collaborative research drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The new SlaveVoyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America. The website is currently hosted at Rice University.
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.
https://www.slavesocieties.info/
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.
The SSDA’s largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church, which mandated the baptism of African slaves in the fifteenth century and later extended this requirement to the Iberian New World. The baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins.
Mapping Blackness: A Digital Archive of Black Communities
**Carla LynDale Bishop’s ‘Mapping Blackness’ Selected as Recipient of MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship**
African American Lives
Discover the variety of African Americans experiences of the Civil War.
Black Belt Brooklyn
Black Belt Brooklyn
Black Belt Brooklyn historicizes Black practices of vitality, mutual-aid, and institution building amidst municipal neglect.
We work with leaders and policymakers to expand access to postsecondary education, improve student and workforce outcomes, and strengthen the systems that sustain scholarship and knowledge creation. We do this by providing strategic advice, conducting rigorous research, evaluating initiatives, and developing and incubating nonprofit tools and services.
Smithsonian Community Curation Program
The Community Curation Program is an innovative, digital initiative bringing the Museum's digitization services to local communities across the country. By creating an online space for shared memories, the Community Curation Program supports the preservation of African American community history and culture.
Digital Data Sources and Tools on Inequality Statistics & Solutions
NCES* Tool Explores How Differential Learning Opportunities May Influence Achievement Gaps (*National Center for Education Statistics)
Professional Resources for Historians
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aaihs.org
historians.org
oah.org
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