Overview
This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google. The content is available for free, though it is at the discretion of the institution providing the content.
The above tabs provide a listing of newspapers broken down by title and region. The boxes to the right provide titles limited to Cornell University users.
For listing of general American historical newspapers visit: American Historical Newspapers Online
African American Newspapers For Cornell Users
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African-American newspapers, 1827-1998Part of the Readex America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States--those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (OH), Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S.
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Black Studies Center NewspapersBlack Studies Center Newspapers (ProQuest) indexes the Chicago Defender - Daily edition (1956 to 1975), Chicago Defender - Saturday edition (1910 to 1975), New York Amsterdam News - Weekly edition (1922 to 1993), and Pittsburgh Courier - Weekly edition (1911-2002).
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Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press from 1960. Among the Black newspapers in this collection are: Afro-American Red Star, Call & Post, Chicago Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, New Pittsburgh Courier, and The Los Angeles Sentinel.
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ProQuest Historical NewspapersThis database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project. Included in this database is the Chicago Defender, the New York Amsterdam News and the (New) Pittsburgh Courier.
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African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives)Abolitionist Newspapers indexed are:
• Freedom's Journal, 1827-1829
• The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), 1837-1841
• The North Star, 1847-1851
• The National Era, 1847-1860 (Washington, D.C.)
• Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857 (Chatam, Ontario)
• Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851-1855
• Christian Recorder, 1811-1887.
These newspapers are transcriptions of the original newspapers.
