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The Baltimore African-American 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. The paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
African American Data Links (US Census)
Digital Harlem - Mapped data from 1920's and 30's
Social Sciences Data Resources - Africa
Social Sciences Data Resources - Caribbean
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Anti-Slavery Literature Project
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visiual Record
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
Digital Library on American Slavery
New York Slavery Records Index