ENCollections taggedAfrican American History
Dickenson Census Indices: Occupations of Afro-American Families on Staten Island, 1840 - 1875
In 1981, genealogist and historian Richard B. Dickenson published Census Occupations of Afro-American Families on Staten Island, 1840-1875. During his research, Dickenson compiled indices using data from the 1855, 1860, 1865, and 1870 State and Federal Censuses. One index is organized...
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Permanent Record Books
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is an African American Cemetery in Staten Island, NY. It was founded in 1935 in response to the practice of racial segregation in cemeteries and is still an active cemetery today. The cemetery's permanent record books are a chronological listing of burials. They...
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Ledger Books
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is an African American Cemetery in Staten Island, NY. It was founded in 1935 in response to the practice of racial segregation in cemeteries and is still an active cemetery today. Frederick Douglass Memorial Park's ledger books provide a day-to-day accounting...
African American Education
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection contains documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950, drawn from the collections of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown...
Cohabitation Records (Marriage Records)
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection In March 1866, the General Assembly passed “An Act Concerning Negroes and Persons of Color or of Mixed Blood,” which included a statute that recognized enslaved people who had...
Amanda of Color vs. Heisle Estate Freedom Suit
In 1841, Samuel Heisle (or Hisle) of Henry County, Kentucky left a will permitting his 36 enslaved people to hire themselves out and use the proceeds to purchase their freedom from his illegitimate son. Several of these Black Kentuckians were able to be manumitted. Others were not so...
Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Death Register
Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection The Mutual Benefit Society insurance company operated in Baltimore from 1903 until 1977 when it merged with another insurance company. Located at 407-413 W. Franklin St., in buildings that still bear the name, it provided weekly sick benefits,...
Records of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery Volumes one to seven.
This project is dedicated to honoring the 37,000 individuals solemnly buried at the Harmony Cemetery between 1828-1960, after which, their grave markers were disposed in the Potomac River in 1960. HASAN (the History, Arts and Science Action Network hasanworldwide.org), the Governments of...
Black History in Sandy Spring
This collection celebrates the lives of Black men and women who worked as domestic farm laborers on land near Sandy Spring, Maryland. These pages bear witness to the integral role Black labor played in ensuring the success of the farming enterprises of local white landowners. These pages further...
Manigault Family Papers
The collection contains information about the people enslaved by the white Manigault family on their rice plantations, Silk Hope in Berkeley District, S.C., and Gowrie and East Hermitage on Argyle Island on the Savannah River in Georgia. Plantation journals kept between 1833 and 1897 by Charles...
Tables in Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915
Pages 7-30 of the Register of the Portland Colored Evening School (Portland neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky) for 1909-1915. Records name, age, place of residence, occupation, enrollment and/or transfer dates, and vaccination. Only a representative sample of blank pages were scanned. Henrietta...
Records of Slavery
These records contain volumes of birth records, manumission certificates, and court minutes covering the lives of enslaved people in the localities that would become New York City. Spanning the 17th and early 19th century, the majority of these materials were created with the passing of the...
Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore, Sick Register
The Mutual Benefit Society insurance company operated in Baltimore from 1903 until 1977 when it merged with another insurance company. Located on 407-413 W. Franklin St., in buildings that still bear the name, it provided weekly sick benefits, death benefits, and health insurance primarily for...
Jacksonville Public Library Digital Special Collections
Typewritten and handwritten meeting minutes, ordinances, and resolutions of the City Council of Jacksonville; collections of source material related to African American life in Northeast Florida including photographs, personal papers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, pamphlets, and gray literature related...
Kentucky USCT Pension files
1,633 Black Catholics are buried in unmarked graves in St. Louis Cemetery in Louisville, KY. Many of the men served in the Union army during the Civil War (the US Colored Troops), as Buffalo Soldiers, and in World War I. This project collects military records, especially pension files, that...
Neal Family Papers
The Neal Family Papers document white farmers and plantation owners, enslaved and free people of color, and freed people in Franklin County, N.C.; Fayette and Henderson counties, Tenn.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hinds County, Miss.; Waxahachie, Tex.; and other areas of the old Southwest in the 19th and...
Sterling High School Yearbooks
Collection of yearbooks from Sterling High School--an African American school started in 1896 and closed when local schools were integrated in 1970
Muhlenberg County Black Marriages c.1866
Scans of the Black Marriage records from the Courthouse in Greenville, Kentucky.
Virginia Untold: Land Deeds
Virginia Untold provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Please help improve the discoverability of these sources by transcribing one of the project's many record types,...