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African American Studies: Newspapers

19th century digital newspapers

African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998  

Full-text collection of African American newspapers printed across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries selected from America’s Historical Newspapers

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century  

Complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

Freedom`s Journal, New York, New York  March 16, 1827 - March 28, 1829 

The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), New York, NY  January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841

The North Star, Rochester, NY  December 3, 1847 - April 17, 1851

The National Era, Washington, D.C.  January 7, 1847 - March 22, 1860

Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857, Chatham, Canada West

Frederick Douglass Paper  1851-1863, Rochester, NY  (Completed through December 1855)

Douglass Monthly Jan 1859 through Aug 1863

The Christian Recorder (1861 - 1902)  (Completed through December 1902; excluding 1892)

America's Historical Newspapers  (1690-1922)  

Searchable full-text of historical newspapers including titles from all 50 states. Now includes select coverage of some major papers after 1922 through the mid 1990s.  Includes access to African American Newspapers, 1827-1998.

Black Life in America (1704-present) 

Curated content from digitized newspapers focusing on major themes in black history, including Curfews and ‘sundown’ notices; Antigua Slave Conspiracy; Dred Scott v. Sandford; Underground Railroad; Emancipation Proclamation; Ratification of the 13th Amendment; Buffalo soldiers; Mississippi Plan; Fisk Jubilee Singers; Plessy v Ferguson; Literacy tests and poll taxes; Sharecropping and tenant farming; Tuskegee Airmen; Church bombings; Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.; School desegregation; Election law and voters’ rights; Bob Jones University v. United States; Los Angeles Riots; Emmett Till Antilynching Act.  A subset of America's Historical Newspapers and Access World News.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Nov 1, 1860-April 15, 1865)  

Full text of major articles gleaned from the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer.

Liberator

Full-text of the weekly abolitionist newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by William Lloyd Garrison.

Images

AP Images  (1840s+)  

Contains the current year's photo report from the Associated Press & a selection of more than 700,000 images from their negative & print library dating from the 1840s.

HarpWeek

Electronic edition of Harper's Weekly, the prominent 19th-century illustrated magazine

Microfilm

Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Microfilm Series
A collection of over 200 newspapers published in thirty-one cities from 1829 to 1923.  The Library of Congress microfilmed the original print papers, which were housed in various state historical societies, for the American Council of Learned Societies.  Search for Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers in the Main Catalog to identify individual titles of newspapers.       

Some titles in this series are available in digital format: African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998.