African-American Periodicals and Newspapers

The library's collection contains a number of African-American periodicals, listed below. Titles followed by an asterisk (*) are newspapers.

Title Place of Publication
 Dates Location
African American Review Terre Haute
1992-present
Bound Periodical
The African Observer Philadelphia 1827-1828 Microfiche no. 147
Alexander's Magazine Boston 1905-1909 Microfiche no. 147
American Anti-slavery Reporter New York 1834 Microfiche no. 147
American Jubilee* New York 1854-1855 Microfiche no. 147
The Anti-slavery Examiner New York 1836-1845 Microfiche no. 147
The Anti-slavery Record New York 1835-1837 Microfiche no. 147
Anti-slavery Tracts New York 1855-1856, 1860-1862 Microfiche no. 147
Birmingham World* Birmingham, AL 1945-1971 Microfilm
Black Issues Book Review Fairfax, VA 1999-present Bound Periodical
The Brown American Philadelphia 1936-1945 Microfiche no. 147
California Eagle* Los Angeles 1940-1943, 1945-1951 Microflilm
Chicago Daily Defender* Chicago 1909-1948, 1963-1969 Microfilm
Color Line Mt. Vernon, New York 1946-1947 Microfiche no. 147
The Colored American Magazine Boston 1900-1909 Microfiche no. 147
Competitor Pittsburgh 1920-1921 Microfiche no. 147
The Crisis New York

1910-1940

1976, 1980-1996

 Microfiche no. 147
Bound Periodical
Douglass' Monthly Rochester 1859-1863 Microfiche no. 147
Fire!! New York 1926

 Microfiche no. 147
The Freedman Boston 1864-1869 E185.2.F84
Herald Dispatch* Los Angeles 1964-1989 Microfilm
The Half-Century Magazine Chicago 1916-1925 Microfilm
Informer and Texas Freeman* Houston 1964-1967 Microfilm
The International Review of African American Art Santa Monica 1991-present Bound Periodical
The Journal of Negro Education Washington, D.C. 1932-1995  
The Journal of Negro History Washington, D.C. 1916-1997
1916-1961
1962-1969, 1988
Microfilm
Bound Periodical
Los Angeles Tribune* Los Angeles 1943-1960 Microfilm
The Messenger New York 1917-1928 Microfiche no. 147
National Anti-slavery Standard* New York and Philadelphia 1840-1870 Microfilm
National Era* Washington, D.C. 1847-1860 Microfilm
National Negro Health News Washington, D.C. 1933-1950 Microfiche no. 147
National Negro Voice Kingston, Jamaica July-Sept. 1941 Microfiche no. 147
National Principia New York 1859-1866 Microfilm
Negro Music Journal Washington, D.C. 1902-1903 Microfiche no. 147
The Negro Needs Education New York 1935-1936 Microfiche no. 147
The Negro Quarterly New York 1942-1943 Microfiche no. 147
Negro Story Chicago 1970 Microfiche no. 147
New Challenge Boston and New York 1934-1937 Microfiche no. 147
Newsletter / White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities Washington, D.C. 1994-present Government Doc. ED 1.89:
The Non-slaveholder Philadelphia 1846-1850, 1853-1854 Microfiche no. 147
Pittsburgh Courier* Phittsburgh 1911-1950 Microfilm
Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes Charlotte 1933-1947 Microfiche no. 147
Race New York 1935-1936 Microfiche no. 147
Race Relations Nashville 1943-1948 Microfiche no. 147
Radical Abolitionist New York 1855-1858 Microfiche no. 147
Sage Atlanta 1984-1995 Bound Periodical
Slavery in America London 1836-1837 Bound Periodical
Southern Frontier Atlanta 1940-1945 Microfiche no. 147
Transforming Anthropology Washington, D.C. 1993-1997, 2001-present Bound Periodical
The Voice of the Negro Atlanta and Chicago 1904-1907 Microfiche no. 147

 

Additional periodicals, though not published by or about African Americans, may also be useful. Two major publications include The New York Times (1851-present on microfilm) and Harper's Weekly (1857-1900 on microfilm). Additionally, the library subscribes to HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I, which includes the full text of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1871.

To search for relevant articles in The New York Times, use The New York Times Index [REF AI21 N45]. For Harper's Weekly, use The Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature [REF A13.R496] and the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature [REF AI3.R4]. You may also find the Reader's Guide Retrospective useful; it indexes 375 popular periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982.

 

African American History in the Press, 1851-1899: From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow as Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time [REF E185.2 A25 1996] compiles reprints of articles, editorials, cartoons, and engravings portraying representations of African Americans in the press. Reprints are taken from the following newspapers:

 

  • Atlanta Constitution
  • Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
  • Boston Daily Globe
  • Charleston Daily Courier
  • Charleston Mercury
  • Daily Phoenix
  • Detroit Free Press
  • Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
  • Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
  • Harper's Weekly
  • Leslie's Weekly
  • The New York Times
  • Richmond Enquirer
  • Richmond Whig

 

 

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