The Black Church Burning Project is a digital humanities website, a community-engaged research project and a justice-oriented memorialization effort.

Its purpose is to identify and document every Black church and congregation that was burned, bombed, or otherwise attacked during the Civil Rights era -- and to bring these forgotten stories forward for scholars, communities, and the public.

By engaging in the following activities:

• Identify and document every case possible and present them interactively so that visitors to the website can engage with this history.

• Tell the in-depth stories where living memory and congregational records persist as testament to the resilience of the Black community and testimony against the perpetrators of racial terrorism.

• Seek to memorialize these events in the community in partnership with congregations that were targeted so that local communities can reckon with the history of racial injustice and violence.