African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers
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American Newspapers at Other Institutions
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- Newspaper
Collections on Microfilm at the U of C Library
A bibliography of major microfilm sets, including
African-American Newspapers, from the Library of Congress
and Abolitionist Periodicals from the Library of
Congress.
Finding African American
Newspapers at Other Institutions
Databases and guides to help you locate African American
newspapers at libraries and museums.
Print Sources
- Blassingame, John W. Antislavery Newspapers and
Periodicals. Reference Publications in Afro-American Studies.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call
Number: AI3.A63.
- Brown, Warren. Check List of Negro Newspapers in the United
States (1827-1946). Lincoln University Journalism Series.
Jefferson City, Mo.: School of Journalism, Lincoln Univ., 1946.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number: PN4722.L74
no.2.
- Campbell, Georgetta Merritt. Extant Collections of Early
Black Newspapers : A Research Guide to the Black Press, 1880-1915,
with an Index to the Boston Guardian, 1902-1904. Troy, N.Y:
Whitston Pub. Co., 1981. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference
Collection Call Number: Z6944.N39C18
- Danky, James Philip and Maureen E. Hady. African-American
Newspapers and Periodicals : A National Bibliography. Harvard
University Press Reference Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1998. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference
Collection. Call Number: Z6944.N39 A37 1998.
- Henritze, Barbara K. Bibliographic Checklist of African
American Newspapers. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co.,
1995. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6944.N39H460 1995.
- Jacobs, Donald M. Antebellum Black Newspapers : Indices to
New York Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), the Rights of all (1829),
the Weekly Advocate (1837), and the Colored American
(1837-1841). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Location:
Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
E185.5.J19.
- La Brie, Henry G. and Henry G. La Brie. A Survey of Black
Newspapers in America. Kennebunkport, Me.: Mercer House Press,
1979. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6944.N39L17 1979.
- La Brie, Henry G. The Black Newspaper in America; a
Guide. Iowa City: Institute for Communication Studies,
University of Iowa, 1970. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference
Collection. Call Number: Z6944.N39L17.
- North Carolina Central University. School of Library Science.
African-American Materials Project. Newspapers and Periodicals
by and about Black People : Southeastern Library Holdings.
Reference Publication in Black Studies. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number: Z1361.N39N86.
- Potter, Vilma Raskin. A Reference Guide to Afro-American
Publications and Editors, 1827-1946. 1st ed. Ames: Iowa State
University Press, 1993. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call
Number: Z6944.N39P360 1993.
- Pride, Armistead Scott and Library of Congress.
Photoduplication Service. Negro Newspapers on Microfilm : A
Selected List. Washington: Library of Congress,
Photoduplication Service, 1953. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor
Reference Collection. Call Number: Z6944.N39P9 1953.
- Suggs, Henry Lewis. The Black Press in the Middle West,
1865-1985. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: PN4882.5.B5360 1996.
- Suggs, Henry Lewis. The Black Press in the South,
1865-1979. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: PN4882.5.B540 1983.
- Thompson, Julius Eric. The Black Press in Mississippi,
1865-1985. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1988.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number: Z1361.N39T520
1988.
- U.S. Negro World. Directory of U.S. Negro Newspapers,
Magazines & Periodicals. [New York]: U.S. Negro World,
1967. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number:
Z6944.N39D6.
- United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Negro newspapers and periodicals in the United States ...
prepared annually by the Negro Affairs Division. Washington,
D.C.: [U.S. Department of Commerce]. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: Z6951.U48.
- University of Wisconsin--Madison. Libraries, Neil E. Strache,
Susan Bryl, and State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library.
Black Periodicals and Newspapers : A Union List of Holdings in
Libraries of the University of Wisconsin and the Library of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 2d , rev ed. Madison:
The Society, 1979. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference
Collection. Call Number: Z1361.N39W82 1979.
- Wolseley, Roland Edgar. The Black Press, U.S.A. 2nd
ed. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: PN4882.5.W640 1990.