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African-American Newspapers

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage includes 1909-2010. For post-2010 issues, see the links in the MU Libraries' journal finder.

Chronicling America
You can use the "All Digitized Newspapers 1789-1963" tab to look for African American newspapers in particular states. Contains issues through 1923, which have entered the public domain.

Black Studies Center
Contains fully cross-searchable texts including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, etc. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper.
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African American Communities
This database contains a complete run of The Messenger, characterized by the U.S. Justice Department in 1919 as "the most able and the most dangerous of all the Negro publications."
Coverage Dates: Early 19th to early 21st century
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Center for Research Libraries: Black Newspapers holdings
The Center for Research Libraries will LEND its newspapers for you and will also DIGITIZE on demand. They will even PURCHASE additional issues of any periodical they own at least one issue of. Use the ILL@MU form (next link) to request material from CRL.
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To request a newspaper from CRL, in the Notes field use the following language: Please acquire from Center for Research Libraries. Digitize if possible. Purchase if not owned.