This is an African American Humanities Project being built right here in Kent County, MD. The project will work with community members to preserve, digitize, and interpret African American history. The project is a partnership between Washington College, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)., and many local organizations including schools, museums, libraries, and churches. The project will offer free digitization of any flat objects – family photographs, letters, recipes, scrapbooks, journals, etc. – as well as moving-media such as home movies, audiotapes, and videotapes.
The survey link below is being used for community members to begin taking inventory of the materials they would like to have digitized for free. The ChesapeakeHeartland staff will use this information to as an inventory of community historical materials. These digitization services are totally free, and they will safely preserve all digitized files in their growing ChesapeakeHeartland digital archive, which will be used to preserve and teach Kent County’s African American history to future generations of students. The originals will be returned to you and you will receive your digitized images on a flash drive for safe keeping or for sharing with friends and family members.
