Category: African-American Family History

Categories: US Black Heritage Project | United States of America


This is a high level category. Please do not add individual profiles. Add profiles to the narrowest category possible. See How to Categorize.

This category holds all the subcategories used by the US Black Heritage Project to engage in genealogy for the African American community in the USA. These categories pertain to anyone with African ancestry from the beginning of the country's existence to modern day.

For slavery era maintenance categories, please see: Category: USBH Heritage Exchange
For slavery era location categories, please see: Category: United States of America, Slavery

This category is managed by the US Black Heritage Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and US Black Heritage.

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Subcategories (79)

United States, African-American Place Studies (5, 0, 1)
United States of America, Black Churches (19, 0, 1)
United States of America, Free People of Color (41, 0, 1)
United States of America, Slavery (49, 1, 10)

A

African American Name Studies (22, 0, 4)
African-American Cemeteries (34, 1, 5)
African-American Military History (9, 2, 13)
African-American Notables (3, 4559, 23)
African-American Organizations (35, 1, 0)
African-American Sources (1, 0, 7)
Alabama, African-American Family History (11, 0, 4)
American Colonization Society (18, 108, 51)
Arizona, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)
Arkansas, African-American Family History (6, 0, 1)

B

BET Awards (5, 0, 0)
Black Fives Basketball (0, 3, 1)

C

California, African-American Family History (6, 0, 2)
Colorado, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)
African American Community Leaders (0, 17, 0)
Connecticut, African-American Family History (4, 0, 1)

D

Delaware, African-American Family History (2, 0, 1)
District of Columbia, African-American Family History (11, 0, 5)

F

Florida, African-American Family History (10, 0, 6)

G

Georgia, African-American Family History (7, 0, 9)
Great Migration (African-American) (74, 1, 1)

H

Harlem Renaissance (1, 58, 1)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) (85, 1, 0)

I

Idaho, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)
Illinois, African-American Family History (5, 0, 1)
Indiana, African-American Family History (6, 0, 1)
Iowa, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)

K

Kansas, African-American Family History (3, 0, 1)
Kentucky, African-American Family History (6, 0, 3)

L

Louisiana, African-American Family History (7, 0, 1)
Lynchings, African-American History (0, 15, 1)

M

African-American Magazines (5, 0, 0)
Maine, African-American Family History (2, 0, 1)
Maryland, African-American Family History (6, 0, 4)
Massachusetts, African-American Family History (4, 0, 2)
Melungeons (0, 99, 3)
Michigan, African-American Family History (3, 0, 1)
Minnesota, African-American Family History (1, 0, 0)
Mississippi, African-American Family History (9, 0, 4)
Missouri, African-American Family History (6, 0, 1)
Montana, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)

N

Nebraska, African-American Family History (2, 0, 1)
Negro League Baseball (2, 87, 0)
Nevada, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)
New Hampshire, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)
New Jersey, African-American Family History (2, 0, 1)
New Mexico, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)
New York, African-American Family History (4, 0, 3)
African-American Newspapers (22, 0, 1)

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Niagara Movement (0, 33, 1)
North Carolina, African-American Family History (11, 0, 7)
North Dakota, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)

O

Ohio, African-American Family History (14, 0, 6)
Oklahoma, African-American Family History (8, 0, 2)
Oregon, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)

P

Pennsylvania, African-American Family History (9, 0, 4)
Puerto Rico, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)

R

Reconstruction (2, 1, 0)
US Black Heritage, Resources by State (6, 0, 45)
Rhode Island, African-American Family History (3, 0, 1)

S

African-American Settlements (12, 0, 1)
South Carolina, African-American Family History (8, 0, 4)
South Dakota, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)
Southern Claims Commission Claimants (0, 24, 0)

T

Tennessee, African-American Family History (9, 0, 2)
Texas, African-American Family History (11, 0, 2)

U

Underground Railroad (5, 107, 2)
United States of America, Civil Rights Movement (7, 3, 0)
Utah, African-American Family History (3, 0, 1)

V

Vermont, African-American Family History (2, 0, 1)
Virginia, African-American Family History (10, 0, 3)

W

Washington, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)
West Virginia, African-American Family History (2, 0, 2)
Wisconsin, African-American Family History (1, 0, 1)
Wyoming, African-American Family History (0, 0, 1)

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