EREPORT @ York

March 24, 2010

TRIAL: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

Filed under: Database trials — ereport @ 4:54 pm

York U has arranged for a trial to African American Newspapers

The trial will run through to April 28th. You can access it here by clicking on “America’s Historical Newspapers”:  http://infoweb.newsbank.com

African American Newspapers is a fully searchable online collection featuring 270 newspapers published in 36 states. Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; the 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; the rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more.

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