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Other Organizations and Resources

Updated: December 20, 2022

Updated: December 20, 2022

Montgomery County, Maryland:

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society: Montgomery County

Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition

Boyds Historical Society

Button Farm Living History Center

County Cable Montgomery: Black History in Montgomery County

Friends of Moses Hall (Cabin John)

Heritage Montgomery: Historic African American Communities

Historic African-American Communities in the Washington Metropolitan Area

Historic Montgomery County Cemeteries and Cemetery Inventory

Josiah Henson Park

Maryland State Archives: Record of Slaves in Montgomery County (1867-68 Commissioner of Slave Statistics)

The Menare Foundation (Underground Railroad Preservation)

Montgomery Community Media: Black History Month News

Montgomery County Planning: Mapping Segregation Project

Montgomery County Public Libraries: Lincoln Park History Project

Montgomery County Public Schools: Carver High School and Junior College

Montgomery County’s Locally Designated Historic African American Sites and Places

National Park Service: African American Communities Along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (Historic Resources Study)

Oakley Cabin African American Museum and Park

Peerless Rockville: Looking Back at Rockville’s African American Heritage

Rockville’s African American Heritage Walking Tour

Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery

Sugarland Ethno History Project

Underground Railroad Experience Trail Hikes

Visit Montgomery: Black History Month

Warren Historic Site (Martinsburg African American Community)

 

Maryland:

The Baltimore Sun: Notable Maryland African-Americans

Enoch Pratt Free Library: African American Department

The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture

Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

Maryland State Archives: African American Resources

Maryland State Archives: Legacy of Slavery in Maryland

Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center

Prince George’s County Planning Department: African-American Historic and Cultural Resources in Prince George’s Maryland

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture

University of Maryland Baltimore County: Black Power in Washington, D.C., 1961-1998

University of Maryland: Black History Tour

 

 

General:

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

BlackPast.org: Research Guides and Websites: African American History

Family Search: African American Genealogy Records

Library of Congress: African American Genealogy Resources

Library of Congress: African American Sites in the Digital Collections

National Archives: African American Heritage

National Archives: Black History Resources

National Education Association: Black History Month Lessons & Resources

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Park Service: African American Heritage

Smithsonian Magazine: Articles tagged as African American History

U.S. Department of Defense: African American History in the Defense Department

Washington Area Spark (Flickr): African American Struggle