AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS on Microfilm at the University of Georgia Libraries 2nd Edition, 2006 Compiled by Leigh Ann Vey with the assistance of William T. Murray (and a host of other predecessors) African American Newspapers At the University of Georgia Libraries Ed. 2 2006 i African American Newspapers At the University of Georgia Libraries 2nd Edition 2006 Foreword & Acknowledgments The importance of African-Americans in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. For anyone wishing to understand the development of this nation from the earliest days of the republic to the issues currently facing the nation, some understanding of African- American history and culture is prerequisite. Newspapers published and written by African- Americans are an important link to this history. In them are recorded views, viewpoints, people, news, and events of great importance not only to local communities, but the nation and world at large. As well, these are rich resources for insights into cultural aspects of African-American life, as evidenced by the many stories and advertisements about theatres, musical events, including clubs, concerts, and dances, society happenings, fashion, business and trade. Various African-American newspapers have been collected over time at the University of Georgia Libraries for use by its students, faculty, and researchers. These collections consist primarily of microfilm format and the content ranges dates from 1826 to the present era. In some cases, these titles were acquired piecemeal, as research needs required, and in other cases they were purchased as a part of other collections. The resulting microfilm is not considered “a collection” in the formal sense and many individual newspaper titles are cataloged independently of the rest. Obviously, for the purposes of studying African-American history, having a guide to these various titles and collections would be most useful. But this has not been an easy task. The effort to assemble this guide has literally spanned nearly two decades and has involved many people. Richard Shedenhelm deserves credit for putting together teams of people to do early survey work and the results of their work in the late 1990s and early 2000s took the form of the important Afro-American Newspapers on Microfilm at UGA. Working under his guidance were Christi Bamford, Thomas Boyd, Marisa Faiz, Jesse Foley, Joshua Hickman, Katha Massey, Tim Murray, Daniel Nash, Lisa Pittman, Shashank Saksena, Laura Shedenhelm, Rachel Smith and Paul Van Wicklen. This edition adds to those previous efforts. One of the goals of this effort was to reform the previous data, melding it into new information, and producing a distributable guide in both print and PDF formats. Much of this effort was performed by Leigh Ann Vey, who carefully viewed many of the reels listed here to determine correct dates, places of origin, and other peculiarities. Along the way, she discovered copies of issues not listed in previous guides, errors and omissions in other guides, clarified vague information, and sought to resolve problems of duplication. Taking the results of her work, Tim Murray sought to form all this information into a database to permit ease of sorting, formatting, and revision. ii Introduction This guide seeks to answer what, where, and when questions pertaining to African American Newspapers within the University of Georgia Libraries microfilm collection. It is divided into three sections. Title Listing Title, City, State, Date(s), Call Number State Listing State, City, Title, Date(s), Call Number Notes are included for some titles. Chronological Listing Year, Title, City, State, Call Number This edition is an attempt to bring information from a variety of sources into a single guide. Since the University of Georgia Libraries holds copies (on microfilm) of a variety of African American Newspapers, it seems reasonable that a comprehensive guide should be available. However, in the past, most guides have been those pertaining to specific collections of African American Newspapers and have often omitted those holdings outside of these collections. Hopefully this guide will help remedy that situation. Yet, this guide may not be complete. During our survey of the microfilm holdings, we may have missed titles or issues of titles. Much of this information was assembled by actually viewing the microfilm content; if a reel was missing during that survey period, we may not have realized it. The users of this guide are encouraged to let us know if errors or omissions have occurred. Of course, there is the possibility that new additions to our holdings may be made in the future which may make this guide obsolete or at least incomplete. Like those on whose efforts this edition builds, it is our hope that this guide will prove useful for some time to come. Leigh Ann Vey, William T. Murray Serials Department June, 2006 page 1 Title Listing TITLE LISTING Below is a list of titles within the microfilm holdings of the University of Georgia Libraries. Dates, when known, are given. Date ranges do not necessarily imply completeness as some issues within the range may be missing. TITLE LISTING Advance HOLDINGS: 1900 : Sep 22 (Wilmington, Delaware) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 16 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Africo-American Presbyterian HOLDINGS: 1899 : Dec 21 (Wilmington, North Carolina) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 4 no. 19 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Afro-American HOLDINGS: 1893 : Apr 29; 1895 : Aug 3, Aug 10, (Baltimore, Maryland) Aug 17, Aug 31, Sep 7, Oct 19, Oct 26, Nov FILM AN58 .M55 reel 1 no. 3 2, Nov 30, Dec 14, Dec 21; 1896 : Feb 15, Feb Part of: Miscellaneous Negro 22, Apr 18, May 9, May 16, May 30, Jun 13, Newspapers NOTE: 1896 : Jun 13 Jun 27; 1897 : Mar 27, Apr 17; 1898 : Mar 26 filmed twice Afro-American HOLDINGS: 1893 : Apr 29-1988 : Feb 6 (Baltimore, Maryland) FILM AN23 .B2 A3 Part of: Afro-American Afro-American Advance HOLDINGS: 1899 : May 27, Jun 3, 13, 17, 24, (St. Paul and Minneapolis , Jul 1, 8, 22, 29, Aug 5, 12, 26, Sep 2, 9, Minnesota) 16, 23, Oct 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov 11, 18, 25, FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 15 Dec 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; 1900 : Jan 6, 13, 20, Part of: Miscellaneous Negro 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar 3, 10, 17, 24, Newspapers 31, Apr 7, 14, 28, May 12, 19, 26, Jun 2, 16, 23, 30, Jul 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug 4, 11, 18, 25, Sep 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, Nov 3, 10, 17 Afro-American Advocate HOLDINGS: 1891 -1893 (Coffeyville, Kansas) FILM AN19 .C6 A3 Part of: Afro-American Advocate page 2 Title Listing Afro-American Citizen HOLDINGS: 1900 : Jan 17 (Charleston , South Carolina) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 4 no. 27 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Afro-American Sentinel HOLDINGS: 1896 : Feb 22- 1899 : Mar 25 (Omaha, Nebraska) FILM AN30 .O5 A3 Part of: Afro-American Sentinel Afro-Independent HOLDINGS: 1888 : Sep 22 (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 10 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Albany Times HOLDINGS: 1982 : Feb 17, Apr 28, Jun 9-30, (Albany, Georgia) Jul 14-28, Aug 4, Oct 13-27, Nov 10-24, Dec FILM AN13 .A3 A42 1-8, Dec 22; 1983 : Jan 5-12, Feb 9-23, Mar Part of: Albany Times 2, Mar 30, Apr 20, May 11, May 25, Jun 1, Jun 22-29, Jul 6-13, Jul 27, Aug 3-10,; Aug 31, Sep 21, Oct 5-19, Nov 16; 1984 : Jan 11- 25, Feb 15 Aliened American HOLDINGS: 1853 : Apr 9 (Cleveland, Ohio) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 3 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers American HOLDINGS: 1898 -1899 (Coffeyville, Kansas) FILM AN19 .C6 A5 Part of: American American Citizen HOLDINGS: 1894 -1897 ; 1900 -1903 (Topeka , Kansas) FILM AN19 .K3 A5 Part of: American Citizen American Citizen HOLDINGS: 1879 : Apr 19 (Baltimore, Maryland) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 2 no. 8 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers American Eagle HOLDINGS: 1905 : Dec 17 (St. Louis , Missouri) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 8 no. 2 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers page 3 Title Listing American Guide HOLDINGS: 1900 : Jan 27 (Little Rock, Arkansas) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 4a no. 5 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers American Negro HOLDINGS: 1890 : Oct 25 (Springfield , Missouri) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 8 no. 1 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Appeal HOLDINGS: 1892 : Aug 20 (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 6 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Appeal HOLDINGS: 1892 : Sep 10 (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 8 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Arkansas Freeman HOLDINGS: 1869 : Oct 5 (Little Rock, Arkansas) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 11 no. 2 Part of: Miscellaneous Negro Newspapers Arkansas Mansion HOLDINGS: 1883 -1884 (Little Rock , Arkansas) FILM AN6 .L5 A7 Part of: Arkansas Mansion Atchison Blade HOLDINGS: 1892 -1893 (Atchison , Kansas) FILM AN19 .A8 B55 Part of: Atchison Blade Athens Blade HOLDINGS: 1879 : Oct 31; 1880 : Jan 16, Feb 6, (Athens , Georgia) Feb 20-27, Apr 23 FILM AN13 .A8 B55 Part of: Athens Blade Athens Clipper HOLDINGS: 1901 : Aug 31; 1904 : Apr 3 (Athens, Georgia) FILM AC1 .M62 reel 53 no. 9 Part of: Miscellaneous Georgia Newspapers Athens Voice HOLDINGS: 1980 : Jul (Athens , Georgia) FILM AN13 .A8 A95 Part of: Athens Voice page 4 Title Listing Athens Voice HOLDINGS: 1975 : Jun 15-29, Jul-Nov, Dec 6- (Athens, Georgia) 13, Dec 27; 1976 : Jan, Feb 7-14, Feb 28, Mar FILM AN13 .A8 V6 6, Mar 20-27, Apr 4, Apr 17-24, May, Jun 4, Part of: Athens Voice Jun 12-26, Jul 3, Jul 17-31, Aug-Dec; 1977 : Jan 1, Feb, Mar 5-19 Atlanta Age HOLDINGS: 1900 : Jan 13 (Atlanta , Georgia) FILM AN58 .M55 reel 4a no.