ENCollections tagged African 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...
Phillis Wheatley Community Center (Greenville, S.C.)
The Phillis Wheatley Association was founded by Hattie Logan Duckett in 1919 as a community center for Black individuals. While the center has changed throughout the years for their users, it has remained as a pillar of support in the Greenville community. In 2019, the organization celebrated...
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,...
Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection- Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Life 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...
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...