Online
- Chicago Defender (1910-1975) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window Date coverage: 1910-1975. Full-page images and article images (PDF) with searchable full text from the African American newspaper Chicago Defender under all its title variants.
- African American newspapers (Accessible Archives) 1827-1902 Titles in the Collection: The Christian Recorder; The Colored American/Weekly Advocate; Frederick Douglass’ Paper Freedom’s Journal; The National Era; The North Star; Provincial Freeman.
- Boston Banner (formerly Bay State Banner) 1992+Contained in database Ethnic Newswatch
see also the on-site archive:
- Bay State Banner Collection
Photographs, electronic media, printed materials, and other items related to the Banner.Electronic media in the collection consists of photo CDs that include all Bay State Banner digitized photo files; printed materials include magazines, programs, newspaper clippings, and issues of the Bay State Banner from 1994 to 2016.Other items in the collection date from 1969 to 1995 and consist of professional and legal materials. (see HGARC collection page for details.)
Microfilm
Mugar Memorial Library has a number of African-American newspapers on microfilm 
. Papers with only the location "Mugar Mfilm" (no call number) are arranged alphabetically in the left-hand cabinets that face the front of the Microforms Room.
- The Afro-American (Baltimore, Maryland) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .A3M and E185.5 .A37 and E185.5 .N48 1893 - 1985.
- Amsterdam News (New York, New York) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .N53 1963 - 1986.
- The Black Panther (Oakland, California) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .B55 vol. 2 (1968) - 20 (September 1980).
- Freedom's Journal (New York, New York) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .E27vol. 1(March 16, 1827) - vol. 2, no. 104 (March 28, 1829).
- Guardian (Boston, Massachusetts) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .G82 and E185.5 .G83 1901 - April 20, 1957.
- Los Angeles Sentinel (Los Angeles, California) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .L67 1946 - 1985.
- Milwaukee Courier (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .M54 1964 - 1967, 1982.
- National Era (Washington, DC) Mugar Mfilm 1847 - 1860.
- National Principia (New York, New York) Mugar Mfilm 1859 - 1866.
- Negro World (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Mugar Mfilm July 1926 - June 1933.
- New Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .P57 March 25, 1911 - present.
- New York Age (New York, New York) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .N52 January 5, 1905 - February 27, 1960.
- The Philadelphia Tribune (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Mugar Mfilm E185.5 .P44 1933 - 1969, July 1970 - 1985.
Books and Bibliographies
| Suggested BULSearch terms : African American press -- History -- 20th century African American press -- History -- 19th century |
A History of the Black Press by Location:
Mugar Stacks PN4882.5 .P75 1997Publication Date: 1997
The Black Press, U. S. A. by Location: Mugar Stacks PN4882.5 .W64 1990Publication Date: 1990- Bulwark of the nation: northern black press, political radicalism, and civil rights 1859-1909 byLocation: Online Dissertation (BU)Publication Date: 2012
Race news : black journalists and the fight for racial justice in the twentieth century by Location: Online JSTOR eBookPublication Date: 2017
Extant Collections of Early Black Newspapers: a research guide to the Black press, 1880-1915, with an index to the Boston guardian, 1902-1904 by Location: Ref Z6944.N39 C3MPublication Date: 1981
Mugar Stacks PN4882.5 .P75 1997
