Newspapers

African American newspapers, 1827-1998 (Harvard login)

Caribbean newspapers, 1718-1876 (Harvard login)

African American newspapers: the 19th century (Harvard login)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers include illustrations, editorials, and advertising. African-American papers are listed below.

All or several of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers can be searched at once from the ProQuest Databases page: from any of the individual ProQuest Historical Newspapers pages, hit the "Searching; 1 database" link, scroll down to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers section and select the ones you want.

Ethnic NewsWatch (1960- ) is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. (Harvard login)

Historical African American Newspapers Available Online

Periodicals

African-American Periodicals, 1825-1995; (Harvard login) Includes some 170 periodicals by and about African Americans: academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports, and other genres, including African Repository (Washington, DC, 1825-1892), The Black Warrior (Fort Parapet, LA, 1864), El Mulato (New York, NY, 1954), Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA, 1865), Southern Workman (Hampton, VA, 1865-1939), Bay Area Report (Oakland, CA, 1982).

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (1900- present; full text 1998-present) indexes over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the US, Africa and the Caribbean. (Harvard login)

Ethnic NewsWatch (1960- ; some content back to late 1950s) is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. (Harvard login)

The Crisis (1910- ), the official publication of the NAACP