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Alexandria Society for the Preservation of Black Heritage

Alexandria, Virginia.

American Colonization Society Collection (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)

The American Colonization Society, organized in 1817 to resettle African Americans in West Africa, presented its records to the Library of Congress in 1913, 1964, and 1965.

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.

Baltimore Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (BAAHGS)

Baltimore, Maryland.

Birmingham African American Genealogy Group, Inc.

Birmingham, Alabama.

Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc.

For the twelve counties of Alabama's Black Belt Region--Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter and Wilcox.

Black Family Genealogy & History Society

Phoenix, Arizona.

Black Genealogy Research Group (Facebook)

Seattle, Washington.

Black Genealogy Search Group

Denver Colorado. Colorado

Black Loyalist Heritage Society

Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Canada.

BlackPast - Prince Hall Masons (1784- )

The Prince Hall Masons are the oldest and largest group of Masons of African origin in the world.

Buffalo Genealogical Society of the African Diaspora

Buffalo, New York.

Burke Brown Steppe Genealogy Group (BBS)

Charlottesville, Virginia.

California African-American Genealogical Society

Los Angeles, California.

Community and Place: A Study of Four African American Benevolent Societies and their Cemeteries

By Kimberly Martin, Clemson University.

Danville Boyle County African-American Historical Society

The home page of the African American historical society of Boyle County and Danville, Kentucky. Vital records, family genealogies, historical articles, of Boyle and surrounding counties. Latest information on our new History Center, library and museum.

Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Early Black Benevolent Societies, 1780-1830 (JSTOR)

Article by Robert L. Harris, Jr., The Massachusetts Review Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 603-625 (23 pages). JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Access via schools and libraries or subscribe as an individual to JPASS.

Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society

Detroit, Michigan.

Indiana African American Genealogy Group