BLACK WASHTENAW COUNTY COLLABORATORY
The Black Washtenaw County Collaboratory brings together local historians, community organizers, and cultural institutions with an interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates at the University of Michigan. Specifically, the collaboratory documents, analyzes, and publicizes the intersecting histories of African American community building and racial segregation in Washtenaw County during the 19th through the early 21st centuries.
Interactive StoryMap
Explore our community-generated StoryMap of Black Washtenaw County. This interactive map tells the collective memories of African Americans surrounding the built environment of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Community members connect these buildings, emphasizing their importance in the histories of racial segregation, inequality, and African-American community formation of Washtenaw County.
A Guide to Black History in Washtenaw County
This guide was created by Jack Schmitt and Delaney Jorgensen, Master’s students at the University of Michigan School of Information, as a capstone project in partnership with the Bentley Historical Library and Michelle McClellan, Johanna Meijer Magoon Principal Archivist. This is a resource guide pointing you to some of the rich collections pertaining to Washtenaw County’s Black History.
