Civil Rights Law Research

America's Historic Newspapers includes:

African American periodicals from the 19th and 20th centuries
130 ethnic American newspapers covering 1791-1971
Hispanic newspapers from 14 states covering 1830-1980
Additional American newspapers covering 1690 to the recent past.

Newspaper Archive includes over 7200 publications, including small town newspapers, from 22 countries and all 50 states covering 400 years of history.

Historical Newspapers Search provides coverage of major United States newspapers like the Boston Globe, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal as well as a selection of historical black newspapers:

Atlanta Daily World—1931-2003
The Baltimore Afro-American—1893-1988
Cleveland Call & Post—1934-1991
Chicago Defender—1910-1975
Los Angeles Sentinel—1934-2005
New York Amsterdam News—1922-1993
The Norfolk Journal & Guide—1921-2003
The Philadelphia Tribune—1912-2001
Pittsburgh Courier—1911-2002

And historical Jewish newspapers:

The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger—1857-1922
The American Israelite—1854-2000
The Jewish Advocate—1905-1990
Jewish Exponent—1887-1990

The Historical Newspapers Search offers full-text searching across all the ProQuest Historical Newspapers available through the Harvard Library. At the site, you can select and deselect titles to create your own custom list of titles to be searched. Click on the "See list" link at the search page to view all titles and years of coverage included.

This is a historic film collection, primarily made up of Negro Newspapers on Microfilm, a collection of more than 200 African-American newspapers owned and copied by the Library of Congress (LC) from the mid-1800s to the mid-1950s. Please note that not all titles are shelved in the Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room. Call numbers starting with NB and NC can be found in the Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room. Other call numbers can be found in Government Documents and Microforms, Lamont Library. Check the HOLLIS catalog to confirm a specific location.

The Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room (NMRR) in Widener Library and the adjacent stacks contain a selection of United States and foreign newspapers on microfilm, including the back file of the current newspaper collection. Materials can be viewed, scanned, and copied from microfilm readers in the room. Materials do not circulate. Holdings may be searched by title or geographic location.