Historical Newspapers Search (ProQuest)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.