Research Guides: Africana Studies: Find Primary Sources

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Historical Black Newspapers

ProQuest Black Studies
Provides primary and secondary sources, leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents, key government materials, video, writings by major American Black intellectuals and essays by top scholars in Black Studies.
Black Thought and Culture (Proquest)
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (Proquest)
Proquest's new Black Freedom Struggle website, features selected open access primary source documents including historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Adam Matthew Explorer
A comprehensive resource for primary sources in history, global studies, American studies, Asian studies, gender studies, theatre, music, and much more.
Archives Unbound (Gale)
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research needs of researchers, and students at the college and university level. The multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover topics from the Middle Ages to the twentieth-century. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digitized full text, manuscript, audio, and image files from the Library of Congress collections. Includes selections from Presidential papers, Congressional documents, maps, pamphlets music and photographs from significant social, cultural and political movements.

Baltimore Afro-American Historical (Proquest)
Provides historical access (1893-2010) to this Black newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.
Chicago Defender Historical (Proquest)
Provides historical access (1905-2010) to the Black newspapers The Chicago Defender and The Chicago Daily Defender with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.
Philadelphia Tribune Historical (Proquest)
Provides historical access (1912-2001) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.
New York Amsterdam News Historical (Proquest)
Provides historical access (1922-1993) to the Black newspapers The New York Amsterdam News and the New York Amsterdam Star-News with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.
Los Angeles Sentinel Historical (Proquest)
Provides historical access (1934-2005) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

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