{"id":10284,"date":"2020-02-17T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2021-02-23T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:49:58","slug":"celebrate-black-history-month-with-historic-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/celebrate-black-history-month-with-historic-newspapers","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Black History Month by Exploring Black Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

As filmmaker Stanley Nelson noted, \u201cfrom the publication of the first African-American newspaper in 1827, the pioneering men and women of the black press have given voice to stories and events that otherwise would have gone undocumented\u201d (The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords<\/a><\/em>). Find these stories\u2014from the Freedom\u2019s Journal<\/em> to the Chicago Defender\u2014<\/em> in Emory\u2019s newspaper databases.<\/p>\r\n

African American Newspapers from Accessible Archives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Frederick Douglass\u2019s Freedom\u2019s Journal<\/em> from 1827-1829 is one of eleven Nineteenth Century Black newspapers digitally available via Accessible Archives.<\/p>\r\n

African American Newspapers, Series 1 and Series 2 from Readex<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The Freedom\u2019s Journal<\/em>, also appears alongside later, small-town Black newspapers such as the Afro-American Review<\/em> from Salina Kansas and Afro-Hawai\u2019i News from Waialua, Hawaii in the African American Newspapers database from Readex.<\/p>\r\n

\"Image,<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Black Newspapers from ProQuest Historical Newspapers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The Baltimore Afro-American<\/em>, which is one of the nine major newspapers in Proquest\u2019s Black Newspaper Collection, published its first edition in 1892. Other major city papers followed suit including Chicago (1905), New York (1909), and Atlanta (1928). Search the historical backfiles of nine major African American Newspapers.<\/p>\r\n

Ethnic Newswatch from Proquest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Current Black Newspapers (or Black Newspapers from the 1960s onward) can be found in Ethic Newswatch. It has over 115 African American papers.<\/p>\r\n

For additional information on the editors, writers and newspaper titles, try searching Oxford African American Studies Center<\/a>. It contains biographical and encyclopedic information about African Americans.<\/p>\r\n

If you have questions about black newspapers at the library and available on the web, contact the Library Services Desk at libraryservicedesk [at] emory [dot] edu<\/a> or African American Studies Librarian Erica Bruchko (berica [at] emory [dot] edu<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As filmmaker Stanley Nelson noted, \u201cfrom the publication of the first African-American newspaper in 1827, the pioneering men and women of the black press have given voice to stories and events that otherwise would have gone undocumented\u201d (The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords). Find these stories\u2014from the Freedom\u2019s Journal to the Chicago Defender\u2014 in Emory\u2019s Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[543,766],"class_list":["post-10284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-black-history-month","tag-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NNKS-2FS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12205,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}