AUBURN AVENUE RESEARCH LIBRARY
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Auburn Avenue Research Library's Electronic Resources or E-Resources include:
• Full-text journals
• Newspapers
• Company information
• E-books
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• Market research
• Career information, and more
AARL ONLINE DATABASES
Gateway to the online catalog of the Fulton County Library System catalog. Select 'Auburn Avenue Research Library' to limit your search to the holdings of the Research Library.
Finding aids are descriptive inventories that provide information on both the content and historical context of collections of archives and manuscripts. The Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids presented by the Digital Library of Georgia , opens a new windowdescribe approximately 100 unique research collections, including personal papers, organizational records, oral histories, photographs, and audio-visual resources.
This collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel, and religion.
- Freedom's Journal New York, New York March 16, 1827 - March 28, 1829
- The Colored American (Weekly Advocate) New York January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841
- The North Star Rochester, New York December 3, 1847 - April 17, 1851
- The National Era Washington, D.C. January 7, 1847 - March 22, 1860
- Frederick Douglass Papers 1851-1863
- Douglass Monthly January 1859 - August 1863
- Provincial Freeman 1854-1857
- The Christian Recorder 1861 - 1902
- The Liberator January 1, 1831 - January 1, 1866
Georgia Libraries Learning Online) a network of educational databases for all ages.
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
- Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman - a collection of Ms. Hamer’s correspondences, photographs, financial records, newspaper articles, programs, etc.
- “Komozi Woodard Amiri Baraka Collection” - The Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement – this collection of Amiri Baraka materials was made available by Dr. Komozi Woodard.
- We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 – a collection of memorandums on the Freedom Riders that were compiled by the FBI.
JSTOR's mission is to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. In pursuing this mission, JSTOR has adopted a system-wide perspective, taking into account the sometimes conflicting needs of libraries, publishers, and scholars.
*(GALILEO - log in to fulcolibrary.org with your library card to get password) - Collected AA newspaper archives from ProQuest.
All 'Historical Black Newspapers', opens a new window (search across all newspapers at one time)
- Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), opens a new window The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.
- The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), opens a new window was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
- Chicago Defender (1910-1975), opens a new window A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.
- Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991), opens a new window was founded by Garrett Morgan, inventor of the gas mask and traffic light. Contributors included noted journalists Charles H. Loeb and John Fuster. The newspaper is well known for its support of the Scottsboro trial defendants with letters, clothing, stamps, and donations to the defense fund.
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), opens a new window is the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), opens a new window This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
- The Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), opens a new window was the only black newspaper to provide on-the-scene, day-to-day coverage of the Scottsboro trial and was one of the best researched and well written black newspapers of its time.
- The Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), opens a new window the oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation.
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), opens a new window was one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
