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Sixteen newspapers, all manually transcribed to provide better search and accessibility. They provide a unique journalistic record of the African American experience in the segregated American South. Included are complete runs of newspapers from the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

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Coverage

• The Advocate, 1907–1912
• Athens Republique, 1921–1926
• The Banner-Enterprise, 1883–1884
• The Bee, 1882–1884
• The Black Dispatch, 1917–1922
• The Educator, 1874–1875
• The Langston City Herald,1892–1900
• The Louisianian, 1870–1871
• The Muskogee Cimeter, 1904–1920
• The Nashville Globe, 1907–1918
• The National Forum, 1910
• Pioneer Press, 1911–1917
• The Republican, 1873–1875
• Semi-Weekly Louisianian, 1871–1872
• The Tulsa Star, 1913–1921
• Western World, 1903–1904

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The Music Reference Collections contain a variety of essential reference materials allowing users to chronicle the history of music of diverse origins and walks of life.  Music Online: African American Music Reference is a comprehensive collection of reference materials covers virtually every time period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region and contains the highest quality content. Chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Full text from major reference works. Biographies and personal narratives from oral histories. Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of Black American musical expression.