Black Studies Center
Description
Collection of several types of sources: cross-disciplinary essays, primary sources, biographies, timelines, and other contextual materials including 800+ selected documents from historic newspapers and magazines; backfiles of leading African-American newspaper, The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975; International Index to Black (includes some full text); Black Literature Index-- over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Supports Black Studies, History, Literature, Women's Studies and Religion.
Sources
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience-- cross-disciplinary essays by today's leading scholars in Black Studies, plus rare primary sources, biographies, timelines, and other contextual materials including 800+ selected documents from historic newspapers and magazines; The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975 ; journals from Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean; 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
Updated
Yearly
Time Span
1827 - 1975
