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Newspapers and Journals

See also digital newspaper resources listed on the Newspapers page

African-American Newspapers in Microfilm
List of titles from 17 states. Mostly 20th century, some 19th century coverage. See individual call numbers.

African-American Journals in Microfilm
Holdings for many journals, including Essence, The Crisis and The Liberator. Mostly 20th century, some 19th century coverage. See individual call numbers.

Black Literature, 1827-1940
Fiction, poetry and reviews from US black newspapers and periodicals. (2997 fiche) Call Number Micfich 2559. CD-ROM index to this set is at Alderman Information Desk.

Hampton University Newspaper Clipping File -- see also publisher's description.
Over 55,000 clippings from 100 U.S. black newspapers, 1873-1940. African-American history, politics, education and culture. (789 fiche and guide) Micfich 2157

See also VIRGO. Do an Advanced subject search on african americans periodicals to retrieve journals and newspapers in print and microform.

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Selected Microform Sets

Title	Description	Holdings	Call No.
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Papers, 1930-1942	An offshoot of the Commission on Racial Cooperation; founded by several white women to mobilize support for anti-lynching legislation. See publisher's description.	8 reels and guide	Micfilm 1541
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865	See publisher's description	17 reels and guide	Micfilm 1714
Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950	See also African-American Biographies on the Internet.	1068 fiche	Micfich 2129
Black Culture Collection Africa and African-American publications Reels 183-599 Black experience in America since the 17th century Reels 600-633 Black experience in South America and the West Indies		Note: Some reels missing. See VIRGO for exact holdings.	Micfilm S-148 IVY ANNEX
Black Literature, 1827-1940	Fiction, poetry and reviews from US black newspapers and periodicals. See publisher's description. Note: Ask at Alderman Information Desk about index available on CD-ROM.	2997 fiche	Micfich 2559
The Black Power Movement	Parts 1-4	See onlne guides and fact sheets.	Micfilm 7480
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929	Government reports on the waves of Southern blacks who went north during this period.	25 reels and guide. See online guide	Micfilm 1636
Carnegie-Myrdal Study: The Negro in America	Research memoranda prepared during the 1930's and 1940's for use in Gunnar Myrdal's landmark study An American Dilemma.	13 reels and guide	Micfilm 634
The Charles Waddell Chestnutt Papers	Writer, son of interracial marriage, attended school founded by Freedman's Bureau. More information here.	1 reel	Micfilm 7528
Correspondence of the Secretary of the Navy relating to African Colonization, 1819-1844		10 reels	Micfilm 584
Diaries of Jackson Davis 1937-1947	A Virginia native, throughout his career Davis specialized in Southern education and interracial problems.	3 reels See also online diaries for 1911 and 1913 from Special Collections	Micfilm 7542
George Washington Carver. Papers at Tuskegee Institute	See publisher's description	67 reels and guide	Micfilm 803
Chesnut, Miller, Manning papers	Covers family, business, legal, political and military papers of several 19th century South Carolina planters and politicians.	107 fiche	Micfich 1756
CIA Research Reports: Africa, 1946-1976		3 reels and guide	Micfilm 1461 IVY STACKS
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969	Library owns Parts 1-4 only	41 reels and print and online guides	Micfilm 1569
Title	Description	Holdings	Call No.
Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, Parts 1 & 2		47 reels and print and online guides	Micfilm 1764
Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944 Southern interracial anti-discrimination organization; also emphasized black education. Became Southern Regional Council, q.v. See publisher's description.		55 reels and guide	Micfilm 1563
Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946	See publisher's description.	213 reels and guide	Micfilm 1613
Communist Infiltration of the SCLC: FBI Investigation File		9 reels and guide	Micfilm 1739
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files: South Africa: International and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1954		36 reels and guide	Micfilm 1718 and 1719
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers, 1948-1966	Most materials are from the 1960's	105 reels and guide	Micfilm 1566 and 1567
Early American Imprints Series I, 1639-1800 See also digitized version of this set.		Micfich 1077
Early American Imprints, Second Series, 1801-1819 See also digitized version of this set		Micprnt 8
Federal Writers's Project. Slave Narratives		9 reels and guide	Micfilm 145
Freedmen's Bureau Records The Bureau was established in the US War Department in 1865 to undertake the relief effort and social reconstruction that would bring freedpeople to full citizenship. See link for list of titles and individual call numbers, plus online guides for each title.
Title	Description	Holdings	Call No.
Papers of John and Lugenia Burns Hope		22 reels and guide	Micfilm 2074
Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI Files	Declassified materials documenting FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.	16 reels and print and online guide.	Micfilm 1715
Microfilm Edition of Slavery and Antislavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase and John P. Hale	See excellent description from the University of Toronto	5 reels and guide	Micfilm 857 IVY STACKS
Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society 31 reels and guide, Micfilm 255, IVY STACKS
New Deal Agencies and Black America Papers, reports and correspondence on black issues from the National Youth Agency, WPA, CCC, NRA and other federal agencies. Covers 1933-1940.		25 reels and guide	Micfilm 1577
Operation Dixie: The CIO Organizing Committee Papers, 1946-1953	Documents of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' drive to unionize Southern workers	75 reels and guide	Micfilm 1571
Papers of the NAACP Reports, minutes, conferences, speeches, etc., from 1909-1950, and officials' personal correspondence from 1909-1950		945 reels and guides with subject index. See also online guides.	Micfilm 1568
The Paul L. Dunbar Papers Papers from the Archives and Manuscripts Division of the Ohio Historical Society of this 19th century poet and writer.		9 reels and guide	Micfilm 7464
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society, 1775-1975		32 reels and guide	Micfilm 1589
Papers of A. Philip Randolph Randolph was publisher's of The Messenger (leading journal of the Harlem radicals movement), and President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters		35 reels and guide	Micfilm 2255
President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights	Contains "...various material in the Harry S. Truman Library relative to the President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR), 1946-1948	Micfilm 1578 Ivy Annex 10 reels See print and online reel index
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations The most important surviving plantation records filmed at the major Southern repositories. See pdf guides for Series A-N. See also guide for History of Slavery class		Micfilm 1705 Note: For location, plantation and surname indexes see the Genealogical Index to the Guides of the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations... located in the Microforms Guides section.
Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - list of over 20 microfilm titles located in Alderman GIR, 3rd floor West
Records of the Office of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, 1854-1872		10 reels	Micfilm 583
Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970	Parts 1-4	82 reels and print and online guides.	Micfilm 5913
Title	Description	Holdings	Call No.
Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945	Includes material on her work with civil rights, Southern textile workers, the NAACP, and the Southern Conference on Human Welfare	20 reels and guide	Micfilm 1737
Robert F.W. Allston papers (1732-1896)	South Carolina rice planter, legislator and governor. Some family papers also included.	456 fiche	Micfich 1446
The Bayard Rustin Papers Articles, speeches, correspondence and other items (1940-1987) from the long career of this key civil rights activist and strategist, who was an organizer of CORE and the SCLC, as well as an advisor to Martin Luther King.		22 reels and guide	Micfilm 2244
Slave Narratives, 1937	Interviews with ex-slaves in Ohio	1 reel and guide	Micfilm 1218
Slave Narratives: Appraisal Sheets Typewritten records prepared by the Library of Congress Project, Works Progress Administration for the District of Columbia under the direction of Benjamin A. Botkin, 1939-1941		2 reels	Micfilm 1249
Southern Regional Council Papers 1944-1968	Reports, correspondence, administrative documents, etc. See publisher's description	225 reels and guide	Micfilm 1501
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Papers Interracial organization of tenant farmers and sharecroppers with some ties to socialism and some to New Deal programs. Covers 1934-1970		60 reels and guide with name index	Micfilm 286
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Papers: The Green Rising, 1910-1977	An addendum to the Southern Tenant Farmers's Union papers noted above	17 reels and guide	Micfilm 976
Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries	Series A-E Diaries, correspondence, and business records. Coverage includes courtship, education, marriage, child rearing, & religion.	Hundreds of reels. Print and online guides are available.	Micfilm 5727
State Slavery Statutes		350 microfiche and guide	Micfich 2193
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Papers, 1959-1972	73 reels and guide, Micfilm 1562 One of the most important civil rights groups in the late '50s and early '60s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) became one of the most controversial in its later years. Collection includes correspondence, project files, internal reports, and others materials. See publisher's description
War on Poverty, 1964-1968:	41 reels, Micfilm Selections from... the Lyndon Johnson Library, See online guide.

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