Penn State University Libraries - News: African American and Ethnic Newspapers

Databases

• African American Newspapers (1827-1998) [Full Page Reproduction] (Readex)
  
  • More than 270 African American newspapers from 35 states
  • Includes Freedom's Journal, the first African American newspaper
• Black Historical Newspapers 1910-2002 [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002 [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Chicago Defender, 1910-1975 [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Philadelphia Tribune 1912-2001 [Full Page Reproduction]
• Ethnic NewsWatch [Text Content Only]
  
  • Covers 1990 to present
    
  • Includes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press
  • Hstorical file covers the years 1959-1989
• Ethnic News (via LexisNexis Academic-News Sources) [Text Content Only]

Websites

• Afro-Archives [Digital archives of Afro-American newspapers]
  • Includes:
    • Afro-American - National Edition
    • Afro-American Ledger
    • Baltimore Afro-American
    • Washington Afro-America
• Historical African American Newspapers Available Online (James A Cannavino Library, Marist College)
  
  • Historical periods 
    
    • Antebellum and Civil War Era, 1800-1865
      
    • Reconstruction, 1865-1876
    • Gilded Age, 1877-1899
    • Pre-World War I, 1900-1914
      
    • WorldWar I-World War II, 1914-1945
      
    • 20th and 21st Centuries
  • Covers all US regions
    
• Black News (A Redding Communications, Inc website)
  • Current news stories drawn from many US daily papers and other resources
• Black Press
  • Held by the Library of Congress
• Black Press USA
  • The Black Press Institute is a partnership between the National Newspapers Publishers Association Foundation (NNPAF) and Howard University
• Maynard Institute: Diversity Headlines
  • Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE)
    

Additional Resource

• Center for Research Libraries: US Ethnic Press
  • Request materials through Interlibrary loan