African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography / James P. Danky, editor ; Maureen E. Hady, associate editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danky, James Philip, 1947-

Hady, Maureen E., 1952-

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Series:

Harvard University Press reference library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American newspapers--Bibliography--Union lists.

African American newspapers.

African American periodicals--Bibliography--Union lists.

African American periodicals.

African Americans--Periodicals--Bibliography--Union lists.

African Americans.

African Americans--Periodicals.

Union catalogs--United States.

Union catalogs.

United States.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Union catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 740 pages ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Summary:

"We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us". These words from the front page of Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper published in the United States, in 1827, was a milestone event in the history of an oppressed people. From then on a prodigious and hitherto almost unknown cascade of newspapers, magazines, letters, and other literary, historical, and popular writing poured from presses chronicling black life in America.

The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography of over 6,000 entries is the indispensable guide to the stories of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow, segregation, liberation, struggle, and triumph.

Besides describing many new discoveries -- from church documents to early civil rights ephemera, from school records to single-mother newsletters, from artists' journals to labor publications -- this work informs researchers where and how to find them (for example, through online databases, microfilm, or traditional catalogues.)

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

ISBN:

0674007883

OCLC:

39256125