I’m pleased to let you know that the Library now has access to African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2 from Readex. These fascinating databases provide online access to approximately 330 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
You can access African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2 via the Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide, the Databases A-Z list or Black Studies databases list.
African American Newspapers is a unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states and features many rare 19th-century titles.
Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the NAACP; the Harlem Renaissance; the civil rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more. You will also find first-hand perspectives on notable Americans from Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Newly digitised, these newspapers published by or for African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before.
You can access African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2 via the Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide, the Databases A-Z list or Black Studies databases list.
The Library has access to a wide range of newspaper archives, including more African American titles, which you can access from Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources. There’s also a wide range of other digital primary source databases that cover black history, these can be accessed via the Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide.
Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology
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