ProQuest Black Historical NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowCollection of Historic Black newspapers including Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier. Covers from 1893-2010 time period, but individual newspaper coverage dates vary.
African American Periodicals: Voices of Black Society and Culture, 1825-1995This link opens in a new windowFeatures more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United StatesThis link opens in a new windowSelect primary source documents related to critical people and events in Black history. Contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on these six phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).
Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowChronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages from around the United States from 1770-1963. It is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program in partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Accessible ArchivesThis link opens in a new windowA selection of primary resources including the Godey's Lady's Book, African-American newspapers such as Freedom's Journal, and the Pennsylvania Gazette, an 18th-century newspaper. Coverage years vary by each resource.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)This link opens in a new windowArchive of the New York Times from 1851-2020. Contains New York Times Index and New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank)This link opens in a new windowA full-text news resource consisting of local, regional, national and international sources. Updated daily, it offers primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
Experience and impact of African-Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.
Newspaper Source PlusThis link opens in a new windowNewspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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Nexis UNIThis link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Personalization features include Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.