Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers
The purpose of this site is to recognize and commemorate the contributions of pioneering African-Americans in the historical development of Oregon and Washington, and to educate Oregonians about the history of African-Americans in the Northwest. “Discovering and documenting the history of the Oregon African Americans (pre and post statehood), which was ...
South African History Online
South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history project. It was established in June 2000 as a non-profit Section 21 organisation, aiming to address the biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of South Africans was represented in our educational and cultural institutions. SAHO's mission is to ...
After Slavery
Aimed at historians and aspiring historians of slave emancipation and its aftermath, the site is a collaborative work-in-progress involving a team of four scholars based in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, whose current research is focused on labor, race and citizenship in the post-emancipation Carolinas. The project ...
Allegany County, Maryland African American History
Allegany County, Maryland African American History This website is an overview of the people, sites, events, and history pertaining to local African American history. It occasionally incorporates items and people from Garrett, Washington, and even Frederick Counties, Maryland, as well as Mineral and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia. Allegany County, Maryland African American ...
The History Makers
The HistoryMakers is single largest archival collection of its kind in the world. Our goal is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers. In doing so, we want to include the stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, ...
America’s Reconstruction
Reconstruction, one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history, began during the Civil War and ended in 1877. It witnessed America's first experiment in interracial democracy. Just as the fate of slavery was central to the meaning of the Civil War, so the divisive politics of Reconstruction ...
This Far By Faith
In six hours of dramatic storytelling, This Far by Faith examines the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights era, and into the 21st century, This Far by ...
Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807
Our History pages tell the story of Parliament's role in the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. They also explore Parliamentary involvement in the wider story of the slave trade and slavery. We might today think of Parliament as an abolitionist legislature, but throughout the 17th and 18th centuries it ...
The International Slavery Museum
"The transatlantic slave trade was the greatest forced migration in history. And yet the story of the mass enslavement of Africans by Europeans is one of resilience and survival against all the odds, and is a testament to the unquenchable nature of the human spirit. In 1994, National Museums Liverpool opened ...
Black History in the News
Allensworth: The town that refused to die
One hundred years ago, there was a unique town in the southwest corner of Tulare County where African Americans lived and thrived in a discrimination-free society. Today, you can gain a sense of what life was like for those courageous individuals and families by visiting Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. Located seven miles west of Earlimart, the park has 22 lovingly restored and reconstructed... [Read more]
Dig reveals story of America’s last slave ship — and its survivors
From bits of brick, pieces of slate and shards of glass, Neil Norman is hoping to piece together the lost world of Africatown. For the last several weeks, the anthropology professor from the College of William & Mary has excavated sites in Plateau, in north Mobile County, looking for remnants of the daily life of the Africans who arrived in Mobile in 1860 as captives on the slave ship Clotilda.... [Read more]
James Bolridge finally gets a tombstone
A concrete block marks his grave. There’s no name. No date of birth or death. No insight into who is buried there. The grave holds the final resting place of James L. Boldridge. On Saturday, Boldridge gets a tombstone. An unveiling and dedication ceremony will be held at Woodlawn Cemetery in Independence, a fitting tribute to the influential Independence man who happened to be black. Boldridge was... [Read more]
State’s oldest African-American town to celebrate 111 years
The blacks of Oxford were once segregated to a small segment of the city known as Mooree Quarter. In the late 1890s, the small community was kicked out all together and left to fend for itself. The residents did just that, and their community has been called Hobson City ever since. Hobson City was officially incorporated Aug. 16, 1899; named after Spanish-American War hero, Richard P. Hobson of Greensboro. The... [Read more]
Historically black cemetery is a gateway to our collective past
Behind the 7-Eleven and underneath a stand of slash pines and cabbage palms, at least 13 of Ora Brown’s relatives lie in the ground. The grave of her great-grandmother, Harriett Turner, a former slave who lived to 105, sits yards away from the halting traffic on Monterey Road. Brown was 6 when she went to Turner’s funeral in 1950. Brown’s maternal grandmother, Mary Lee Hamilton, is interred nearby.... [Read more]
