Research Guide for Primary Sources on Civil Rights

Articles in the general and popular periodical literature are indexed in

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

Nation Archives (1865- ) includes full text of complete run of The Nation. Annual update lags behind 1 year.

Opinion Archives offers a full text, as well as author/title, search of full runs of the following opinion periodicals:
American Spectator (1972- ) - Commentary (1945- ) Commonweal (1924- ) - Dissent (1954- ) - Harpers Magazine (1850- ) - Moment (1975- ) - NACLA (1966- ) - Nation (1965- ) - National Review (1955- ) - New Leader (1924- ) - New Republic (1914- ) - New York Review (1963- ) - New Yorker (1925- ) - Orion Magazine (1982- ) - Progressive (1909- ) - Washington Monthly (1969- ) - Weekly Standard (1995- )

Periodicals Index Online indexes contents of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.

Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) indexes many American popular periodicals.

Sepia. Fort Worth, Tex.: Sepia Pub. Corp., v. 1- 1952-
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Internet Archive Full Text 1966-83

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.

The Crisis (1910- ), the official publication of the NAACP
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Google Magazines
Internet Archive Full Text

The political orientation of several news and opinion magazines is given in the News and Opinion section of the biennial Magazines for Libraries (1969- ).

This book has essays on many magazines originating during the date spans indicated:
A history of American magazines, by Frank Luther Mott. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1938-1968, 5 v.
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--V. 1. 1741-1850 -- v. 2. 1850-1865 -- v. 3. 1865-1885 -- v. 4. 1885-1905 -- v. 5. Sketches of 21 magazines, 1905-1930, with a cumulative index to the five volumes.

Black journals of the United States, by Walter C. Daniel. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982, 432 p.
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There are several books available that give information on various types of magazines.

For circulation figures consult the N.W. Ayer & Son's directory,.