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NYS Historic Newspapers - About The Buffalo Criterion. (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1978-current

Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), 1915, 1920, 1922

Weekly African-American newspaper published in Oakland, California. Digitized newspapers through the Portal to Texas History.

Signal of Liberty Newspaper

Michigan antislavery newspaper, 1841-1848.

Southern Courier

A weekly newspaper covering Civil Rights in the South 1965-68. All 177 issues are available in the archives on this site.

Texas Runaway Slave Project - East Texas Digital Archives

The Texas Runaway Slave Project is a database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas, as well as materials from court records, manuscript collections, and books. It documents more than 2,500 fugitive slaves from Texas. The project is ongoing and new content is regularly added to the webpage.

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia: Virginia Runaways, Slave Advertisements, Runaway Advertisements

The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192? - Chronicling America

The Columbia Professional World was established by Rufus Logan in 1901 to serve the African American community in Boone County, Missouri.

The Reflector

An African-American newspaper printed in Charlottesville from 1933-1935, excellent source for understanding the lives of Charlotteville's African Americans during the Jim Crow period.

Western Outlook (San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.), 1900-1928

Weekly African-American newspaper published in Oakland, California. Digitized newspapers through the Portal to Texas History.