{"id":3484,"date":"2020-08-21T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2020-08-21T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:02:54","slug":"new-to-the-library-african-american-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2020\/08\/21\/new-to-the-library-african-american-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the Library: African American Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to let you know that the Library now has access to African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2<\/strong> from Readex. These fascinating databases provide online access to approximately 330 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.<\/p>\n

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You can access African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2<\/strong> via the Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>, the Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a> or Black Studies databases list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from Chicago Metro News (Chicago, Illinois), May 25, 1985, page 4.<\/p><\/div>\n

African American Newspapers<\/strong> is a unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states and features many rare 19th-century titles.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, New York), July 27, 1843, page 3.<\/p><\/div>\n

Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the NAACP; the Harlem Renaissance; the civil rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more. You will also find first-hand perspectives on notable Americans from Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

Newly digitised, these newspapers published by or for African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before.<\/p>\n

You can access African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2<\/strong> via the Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>, the Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a> or Black Studies databases list<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Library has access to a wide range of newspaper archives, including more African American titles, which you can access from Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources<\/a>. There’s also a wide range of other digital primary source databases that cover black history, these can be accessed via the Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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