Our Research

HISTORICAL TIMELINES:

African American History Timeline 

Slavery in America

Civil Rights Movement – 1705 – 1794

Civil Rights Movement – 1789 – 1920

Civil Rights Movement – 1925 – 1962

Civil Rights Movement 1950 – 1960s

Post-Civil Rights Era

Black Lives Matter

LAWS:

Fugitive Slave Act – 1793 and 1850

Emancipation Proclamation – 1863

Thirteenth Amendment – 1865

Freeman’s Bureau – 1865

40 Acres & A Mule – 1865 

Black Codes – 1865

Jim Crow Laws

Civil Rights Acts

Redlining

Gerrymandering

HOLIDAYS

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday

Juneteenth Worldwide Celebration

Black History Month

RESEARCH TOOLS:

Freeman’s Bureau

African American History | National Archives

Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade

Slave Manifests 

Virginia Slave Index

Digital Library on American Slavery

Black Genealogy in Virginia

Virginia African American Genealogy

African American Historical & Geological Society

Family Research

Plantations in Virginia