We are proud to announce that Forum One’s work on the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal is a Silver Collision Awards Winner!

The Collision Awards is a prestigious, global awards program dedicated to honoring excellence in Animation and Motion Design in all its forms. 

Out of thousands of entries from over 30 countries, Forum One’s digital work with the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal, produced by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), was selected a Silver Collision winner in the category of Marketing & Communications – Arts & Culture.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal

In 2016 NMAAHC launched the Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project in the Smithsonian Transcription Center to ensure the millions of federal records that documented formerly enslaved individuals in the U.S. were not lost. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian.

To make these files as searchable as possible, NMAAHC teamed up with Forum One and Quotient, to build the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal. Through this online portal, anyone can search the transcribed and indexed Freedmen’s Bureau Archive in one place. 

Congratulations to the NMAAHC team, Quotient, and everyone on the Forum One team for their award-winning work!