A website that provides links to freely available historical newspapers online, broken out by state and some ethnic press. It includes a list of links to African American newspapers online.

Provides links to freely available online resources, including links to African American newspapers and bibliographies and research guides relating to African American newspaper research and the Black press.

The Chronicling America historic newspapers collection is a free online database to search America's historic newspaper pages 1770-1963. It includes a list of African American newspapers from across the U.S.

This online collection presents newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and became one of the most famous orators, authors, and journalists of the 19th century.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal, by the National Museum of African American History & Culture, provides access to search a variety of topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in the Freedmen’s Bureau records, which includes some newspapers.

A guide for researching the topic of "fugitive slave ads" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.

Contains more than 4,000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants, drawn from newspapers in Virginia and Maryland, covering the years from 1736 through 1803.

A guest post, authored by 2020 Junior Fellow Sophia Southard, University of Kansas Graduate, was originally posted in the Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business blog, Library of Congress. The post highlights a few of the most influential African American newspapers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Has a searchable database of newspaper ads, committal notices, census records, domestic traffic, and more.

A blog post on Headlines & Heroes, the blog of the Serial & Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress. The post explores researching fugitive slave ads in the free online newspaper database Chronicling America.

The Library of Congress collections include a wide variety of family histories, genealogies, and electronic resources useful when researching the African American experience. This guide provides alphabetical and subject indexes to these materials.

Millions of African Americans are descended from slaves, making genealogical research challenging prior to 1870, the date of the first census to include all free people. This guide provides published resources and case studies to aid in your research.

Over 400 years of the African American experience is documented through primary source materials at the Library of Congress. This guide provides access to digitized collections, search strategies, and external websites related to the topic.

All-American News were the first newsreels produced for an African American audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage African Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African American perspective on world and national events. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

The American Folklife Center

Journalist and social activist. Correspondence, articles, syndicated columns, transcripts of radio broadcasts, speeches, reports, notes, biographical subject file, printed material, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Payne's career as a foreign correspondent, syndicated columnist for two African-American newspaper chains, Afro-American Newspapers and Sengstacke Enterprises, and commentator with the Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., (later CBS Inc.) Spectrum radio program. Manuscript Division.

Abolitionist, diplomat, journalist, and orator. Correspondence, diary, speeches and writings, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, and a subject file pertaining to the career of Frederick Douglass. Manuscript Division.

Journalist, Chicago Defender, covering events in Little Rock, Ark. Manuscript Division.

Reporter, Chicago Defender; Editor and publisher, Michigan Chronicle; Editor-in-chief, Chicago Daily Defender; President, National Newspaper Publishers Association. Manuscript Division.