The AME Digital-Archive project will provide researchers with a forum of theological resistance, as the geographic origins of the denomination’s congregations will be cataloged and digitized for statistical review. This analytical project will catalog the origin, location, leadership, and documents of thousands of AME Churches in a web-based database using the SQL code. The coded information can be observed through a traditional table feature, which will allow individual church selections for close analysis. Each Church will be hyperlinked in the chart and will allow individual selection which will include historical facts, images, and digitized materials. Analytical researchers can also filter the table to output their data, which can include statistics and gross number summaries.

The AME digital archives will also include interactive maps from the aforementioned data inputs. These maps will use visual cues to exhibit emigrational shifts in what Ira Berlin describes as the “four black migrations.” By so doing, this digital archive will exhibit the emigration patterns of black churches across the United States and will expose the impact that this denomination has made. As an expert in digital history and a professor in the nation’s oldest Public History Ph.D. program, the AME Digital-Archives project is set up to succeed.