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Coverage Dates: 1829-1922

Collection content includes:
More than 170 unique titles related to African American life and culture
Reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals
Extensive coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions
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Search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Covers the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora. Focus is on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France. The collection includes primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.
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Chronicles the evolution of American history, culture and daily life through thousands of historical newspapers from all 50 states.

Reports, publications, and news broadcasts covering America's fight for racial justice, with firsthand analysis of race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Translated news broadcasts and publications on the international reaction to apartheid throughout the African continent and from around the world

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Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr. when
he merged three church publications, The Baltimore AfroAmerican became one of the most widely circulated African American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy’s daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper’s
contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal
employment rights, urged African American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index contains names, birth/ death years, and bibliographic references to books containing material on that person and an indication of which books or articles include a portrait. The total number of biographical sketches indexed now exceeds 17 million citations and points to more than 2000 publications, covering over 5 million people.
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Black Abolitionist Papers 1830-1865
Atlanta Daily World 1931-2003
Chicago Defender 1910-1975
Cleveland Call and Post 1934-1991
Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2005
New York Amsterdam News 1922-1993
Norfolk Journal and Guide 1921-2003
Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002
The Baltimore Afro-American 1893-1988
The Philadelphia Inquirer 1860-2001

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Black Drama contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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Black Studies Center contains The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975, as well as The HistoryMakers® oral history video resource with extensive interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans, eight additional historical black newspapers, Black Abolitionist Papers, and Black Studies Dissertations.

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Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
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The Chicago Defender is the oldest and most respected African-American newspaper in Chicago. The Chicago Defender was a weekly newspaper from 1909-1956, when it switched to daily coverage. 
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The Civil Rights and Social Justice collection contains 650+ titles from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, nearly 1,000 congressional hearings, civil rights legislative histories, and nearly 1,400 books, reports, and publications.

Search the CRL catalog for access to College and Research Libraries Digital Collections, including: 
African Newspapers
American Periodicals
Brazilian Government Documents
Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication & Mass Education
Dziennik Zwiazkowy
Latin American Newspapers
LLMC-Digital
Official Gazettes & Civil Society Information
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
South Asian Newspapers
The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS)
TRAIL – Technical Report Archive & Image Library

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Ethnic Diversity Source pulls from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, and primary source documents to cover culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of:
African Americans
Arab Americans
Asian Americans
European Americans
Jewish Americans
Latinx Americans
Native Americans
Multiracial Americans

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A full-text research database that offers essential content covering race-related issues

This archive, from the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, documents the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) which was established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against…labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities."

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The United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was created by Congress in 1865 to assist in the political and social reconstruction of post-war Southern states and to help formerly enslaved African Americans transition from slavery to freedom and citizenship. In the process, the Bureau created millions of records that contain the names and information of hundreds of thousands of people across the United States including formerly enslaved African Americans, and those who were free before the Civil War, white southerners, northern educators, elected officials, and more.

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Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
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Candidly documents the realities of slavery at the most immediate grassroots level in Southern society and provide some of the most revealing documentation in existence on the functioning of the slave system. 

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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Full-page and article images from the Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S., covering issues concerning the African-American community and its readers.
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Searches the full text of three ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
The Los Angeles Times (1881-1993)
The New York Times (1851-2014)
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Race Relations in America is a collection of documents produced by the American Missionary Association's Race Relations Department between 1943 and 1970 to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. 

This collection includes primary and secondary resources such as: 
- audio recordings of speeches 
- photographs of the participants at the Annual Race Relations Institutes
- survey material covering school desegregation, church integration, employment practices, housing and recreation, including interviews and raw data, and the resulting analyses, statistics and reports.
- detailed case studies on race relations in cities such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Trenton, Nashville, and San Francisco.

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

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Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor. Slavery and the Law also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
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