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'News of Interest to Colored Readers,' 1927-1928

A ten-month column from the Alexandria Gazette written by African-American Estelle Lane about events in her community in Alexandria, Virginia.

'St. Landry- Up From Slavery Family' (Louisiana-Southwest)

Over 100 Southwest Louisiana African American Families; such as (and including variations of names): Arceneaux, Bailey, Belizaire, Berry, Bonhomme, Bonom, Buron, Burohorn, Briscoe, Chapman, Gathe, Goodman, Goodwin, Guidry, Lavine, Lavergne, Lott, Mosley, Parker, Peter, Rice, Rosser, McClain, McClelland, Senegal, Slaughter, Williams and many many more.

A Community Remembers - African-American Life in Princeton

New Jersey.

A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina, and Selected Finding Aids

LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson releases a new book for African American research. The book is both a locality guide, with tips on where to look for sources and a

African American Family History and Genealogy in Lovingston Nelson County Virginia

African American Genealogy and family history. This site is about an intriguing story of an entire county of negro slaves, along with their descendants who are all related by an extensive web of en-tangled marriages dating back to 1740, encompassing a four hundred and seventy one square mile area of central Virginia, located in Lovingston, Nelson, Virginia at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the Piedmont Plateau. Surnames shown on this site are: Allen, Bailey, Beverly, Bolden, Bowling, Braddock, Cabbell, Callen, Cashwell, Christian, Clopton, Coleman, Cottrell,Crocktt, Diggs, Durrett, Early, Edmunds, Ellis, Epps, Essex, Fleming, Ferguson, Garrett, Giles, Gilmore, Horsley, Howard, Hughes, Johnson, Jamieson, Jemison, Jett, Ligon, Loving, Mack, Mayo, Mead, Meade, Meades, Meads, Meredith, Mitchell, Morse, Mosby, Murphy, Napier, Nicholas, Nunnally, Nunery, Oakrum, Page, Payne, Penn, Pinn, Powell, Rose, Sandidge, Shipman, Steptoe, Strange, Taliaferro, Toliver, Tompkins, Thompson, Vanison, Vaughn, Vaughan, Venable, Woodson, Yancy, family lines.

African American Heritage of Charleston, South Carolina

African American Heritage of Virginia - VFH - Black History

From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Contains biographical materials & information on significant historical sites throughout Virginia. Useful for anyone interested in the experience of African American people in Virginia & in the contributions African Americans have made to Virginia's history. Searchable by region, theme, era & keyword.

African American History

Princeton, New Jersey. From the Princeton Public Library. Includes marriage and death notices.

African American Trail Project

The African American Trail Project is a collaborative public history initiative housed at Tufts University. Originally inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, this project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston, and throughout Massachusetts. The African American Trail Project aims to develop African American historical memory and intergenerational community, placing present-day struggles for racial justice in the context of greater Boston’s historic African American, Black Native, and diasporic communities.

African Americans in Des Moines Iowa

This is a genealogy site with information and pictures as well as the history of African Americans in Des Moines Iowa. There is a surname list. Some surnames are Bueford, Rhone, Wells, Bryson, Fant. The county of focus is Polk county in Iowa.

African Americans in West Virginia

Selections from the James Randall Collection at the West Virginia State Archives.

African-American Families Database

The AAFD project is hosted by the Central Virginia History Researchers (CVHR), a partnership among local historians, anthropologists, database designers, and community residents. CVHR is developing an on-line database for connecting African-American families to their antebellum roots and tracing patterns of community formation in the post-bellum period.

African-American Resources

Missouri. From the St. Louis Public Library.

African-American Sources for Gibson County, Indiana

African-Americans in Chester & Delaware Counties

Pennsylvania.

African-Americans in Southeastern Ohio

Afrolumens Project

The Afrolumens Project exists to promote the collection, study and interpretation of data relating to African American enslavement, community and freedom in central Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to the idea that all Pennsylvania residents share a common history regardless of race, belief or gender identity.

ALGenWeb: Ethnic Groups: African-American Genealogy and History Sites

Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic

Examines the activities of newly-freed African Americans in the North as they struggled to forge organizations and institutions to promote their burgeoning communities and to attain equal rights in the face of slavery and racism.

Black History in Texas