WEBSITES & PROJECTS

Coded Black is one of many projects devoted to ending racism. There are many others involved in this struggle that have publicly accessible projects. This is a fight that requires the work of many hands if we are to ever hope to achieve freedom for everyone in the US and UK. Below are just some of the examples of the social justice work available online. Read, engage, act, and pass it on.

“You can’t win if you don’t fight.”

National Archives: African American Heritage

National Archives: Slavery and the British Atlantic Slave Trade

North American Slave Narratives

Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records

TED Playlist: Talks to help you understand racism in America

TED Playlist: Talks to help you understand social justice

Race and Ethnicity: Pew Research Center

Record Revealed: John Blanke's Petition for Pay Rise

Record Revealed: Photographs of the British Black Panthers Headquarters

Record Revealed: Photographs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The Photographers Gallery: Unknown photographer, Black Power Demonstration and March, Notting Hill, London (1970)

Postwar Caribbean Migration

Race and Trade Unions Image Bank: Britain at Work

Recovered Histories

Roy Wilkins speaks in aftermath of Orangeburg Massacre

Samuel Coleridge Taylor: A Trailblazing Composer

Say Their Names: Green Library Exhibit supporting the Black Lives Matter movement

Segregated Seattle

Seneca Village Project: The history and archaeology of a community of African Americans & Irish immigrants in nineteenth century New York City

Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora

Southern Poverty Law Center

Special Branch File: Black Power

The Story of John Blanke

The Story of Louise Bennett-Coverley

The Story of The Mangrove Nine

The Story of Robert Wedderburn

The Story of Sir Learie Constantine

The Story of William Cuffey

Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 "Fed-Up" Uprising

The Transatlantic Slave Trade [hosted by the UK Parliament]

Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories

United Families and Friends Campaign

The Whiteness Project

William Cobbett’s Parliamentary Debates and Political Register

Available via HathiTrust, The British Newspaper Archive and Google Books