Virginia Black History Archives
The Virginia Black History Archives (VBHA) Project is an attempt to help document the history of African Americans in the Richmond and central Virginia area. Begun in 1990, the nearly 50 collections that make up the VBHA include published and unpublished documents dating primarily from the 20th century. While most of these collections are housed in Special Collections and Archives, some were digitized in the early 1990s and are available either online or on CD-ROM. By providing access to previously unavailable materials, the VBHA Project hopes to provide insight to Virginia's diverse history.
Access the list of VBHA Collections which provides links to finding aids and online access to several digitized collections. Our latest online resources include Separate But Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia and The Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative, streaming video of eleven oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia and the transcripts of those interviews.
- Index of VBHA Collections: Includes finding aids/guides and online access to materials
- African Americans at VCU: A History
- Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection
- Links to African American Internet Resources, with an emphasis on Virginia history
- African American Virginia Church History
- The Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative: Oral histories with leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia.