ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspaper Collection

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspaper Collection is a digitized archive of major African American newspapers dating from 1893 - 2010. These primary source documents allow readers to study United States and global history through the perspectives of Black journalists and communities, as well as illuminating how the Black community in the U.S. has defined itself and navigated the eras of Reconstruction, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, and beyond. Each print issue has been fully digitized, including all articles, illustrations, and advertisements. The collection includes the titles:

• Atlanta Daily World
• Baltimore Afro-American
• Cleveland Call & Post
• Chicago Defender
• Houston Informer and Texas Freeman (papers merged in 1931)
• Kansas City Call
• Los Angeles Sentinel
• Louisville Defender
• Michigan Chronicle (Detroit)
• New York Amsterdam News
• New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia)
• Philadelphia Tribune
• Pittsburgh Courier
• St. Louis American

You may search within the entire collection of newspapers or choose an individual newspaper to search. These newspapers in ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspaper Collection can also be cross-searched with other newspapers in ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global.