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African American Genealogy on the Web / Local History

Links are compiled and maintained by Terri Nelson. Please send suggestions, comments or corrections to tnelson@princetonlibrary.org.

Alaska
- Blacks in Alaska History Project
Arizona
- In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
Connecticut
- A Struggle from the Start (Hartford Black History Project)
District of Columbia
- African American Heritage
Georgia
- African-Americans in the Georgia House of Representatives, 1868-2000
- African-Americans in the Georgia State Senate, 1868-2000
- Drums and Shadows (Georgia Writers' Project)
Illinois
- 54th Massachusetts Infantry and Galesburg, Illinois
- African American Experience (Illinois Alive!)
- Bloomington-Normal Black History Project (Illinois Digital Archives)
  With additional components at McLean County Museum of History.
- Chicago Renaissance, 1932-1950: A Flowering of Afro-American Culture
- Blacks in Galesburg
Indiana
- Indiana Emigrants to Liberia
- Underground Railroad in Indiana
Iowa
- African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection (University of Iowa)
Kansas
- African American History (Kansas State Historical Society)
Kentucky
- Kentucky's Underground Railroad--Passage to Freedom (Kentucky Educational Television)
- Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (University of Kentucky Libraries)
Louisiana
- African Americans in New Orleans: City Government Employees
- African Americans in New Orleans: Family History Sources
- African Americans in New Orleans: Learning
- African Americans in New Orleans: Les Gens de Couleur Libres
- African Americans in New Orleans: Making a Living
- African Americans in New Orleans: The Music
Maine
- Voices of Maine: Visible Black History
Maryland
- Baltimore's African American Heritage & Attractions Guide
- Black History in Baltimore
- Views of African American Life in Maryland
- Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope: African Americans and the Chesapeake Bay (Mariners' Museum)
Massachusetts
- African Nantucketers (Nantucket Historical Association)
- Boston African American National Historic Site (National Parks Service)
  Be sure to explore the places along the Black Heritage Trail.
Missouri
- African American Community of Northeast Missouri, 1880-1960
Nebraska
- African American Information (NEGenWeb Project)
- The Negroes of Nebraska (Nebraska Writers' Project)
New Hampshire
- Black History of the Seacoast
New Jersey
- The African American Experience in Monmouth County, 1700-1865
- African American History: Princeton, New Jersey (1850-1899)
  Deaths, marriages, family and church news transcribed from nineteenth-century newspapers.
- Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History (Giles R. Wright)
  PDF format; requires Acrobat Reader.
- Princeton African American History, Genealogy & Biography on the Web
- Slavery in New Jersey (OurStory)
- United States Colored Troops Service Files - Civil War (New Jersey State Archives)
New York
- African American History of Western New York
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: A Centennial Celebration (Cornell University)
- Harlem 1900 - 1940: An African-American Community
- The Jacksons, Lattimores and Schuylers: First African American Families of Early Albany (Stefan Bielinski)
- Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York (1863)
- Seneca Village
  A 19th-century African American Community in what is now Central Park.
- Sketches of the History, Character, and Dying Testimony of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York (Mary W. Thompson; 1851)
North Carolina
- The Charlotte - Mecklenburg Story: African American Community
- Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia (Paul Heinegg)
  From Genealogy.com. The introduction to Heinegg's book is reproduced online.
Pennsylvania
- The African-American Census, 1838, Philadelphia, PA.
- Afrolumens Project
- Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America, Now Styled the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia.... (William Douglass; 1862)
- From Columbia to Christiana: African Americans in Lancaster County
- The Philadelphia Negro (W.E.B. DuBois)
- Why Colored People in Philadelphia are Excluded from the Street Cars (B.P. Hunt; 1866)
Rhode Island
- Black History (Theresa & Keith Stokes)
  Part of the Eyes of Glory Website, the story of Jewish and African American families in Newport, RI.
The South
- People of Color South (Site Map) (Archives)
South Carolina
- Bill's Journey of Discovery (BBC)
  Bill Drayton from England tours his family's slave-owning past in this country.
- Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (James Hamilton; 1822)
- The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (1862)
Tennessee
- Leaders of Afro-American Nashville
- Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee
- This Honorable Body: African American Legislators in 19th century Tennessee
Texas
- Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas
Virginia
- Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia (Paul Heinegg)
  From Genealogy.com. The introduction to Heinegg's book is reproduced online.
- Race & Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
  For those with relatives in Charlottesville, VA, this site has 1870 and 1910 census transcriptions, newspaper articles, maps, photographs, etc. From the Virginia Center for Digital History and The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and Afro-American Studies.
- A Study of the Africans and African Americans on Jamestown Island and at Green Spring, 1619-1803 (Martha W. McCartney)
  262-page book. PDF document (4.52 MB) requires Acrobat Reader.
- Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope: African Americans and the Chesapeake Bay (Mariners' Museum)
Washington
- Through Open Eyes: 95 Years of Roslyn's Black Mining History
West Virginia
- History of the American Negro, West Virginia Edition
  Volume 7 of the 1923 edition of Biographical History of the American Negro, with West Virginia biographies.
- Lost Voices: Rediscovering the Contributions of African-American Women to West Virginia (Marshall University)
Wisconsin
- Black History in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society)

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