African American Treasures
Save Our African American Treasures is a collaboration among cultural institutions, community leaders and the public to preserve and collect African American material culture.Read More
Civil Rights History Project
The Museum and the Library of Congress have produced an invaluable look at the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights History Project provides faces and voices to many of the previously unknown individuals who made valuable contributions to the...Read More
History, Rebellion, and Reconciliation
History, Rebellion, and Reconciliation is a series of public programs presented by the Museum examining race, justice, and community activism.Read More
In Slavery's Wake
In Slavery’s Wake—Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Our World, the exhibition will travel to Africa, Europe and the Americas, shifting the way we think about, talk about, and represent the history of slavery, race, and globalization and its...Read More
Memory Book
The Memory Book is a signature NMAAHC initiative launched with the first version of the NMAAHC website in 2007. Memory Book was conceived as a social network dedicated to collecting the memories and histories of our visitors.Read More
Oral History Initiative
The mission of the Museum’s Oral History Initiative is to document, preserve, and interpret African American stories through the art and practice of oral history.Read More
Our American Story
A Page From Our American Story, is a regular on-line series for Museum supporters. It showcases individuals and events in the African American experience, placing these stories in the context of a larger story — our American story.Read More
Slave Wrecks Project
The Slave Wrecks Project is designed to combine research, training and education to build new scholarship and knowledge about the study of the global slave trade through the lens of slave shipwrecks.Read More
Smithsonian Transcription Center
The Smithsonian Transcription Center is a pan-Smithsonian website that allows digital volunteers, or “volunpeers,” from around the world to transcribe documents, photograph captions, field books, and other materials online. Read More
The Freedmen's Bureau Records
The Museum is focusing attention on the post-Civil War transition of enslaved people to freedom by making the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau accessible online.Read More
The Great Migration Home Movie Project
This initiative invites participants to schedule an appointment with the museum's audiovisual conservation team in order to digitize the public's home movies.Read More