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Tag: African American Newspapers

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February Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 112 Titles!

By Tony Pettinato on February 6, 2024

An article (with a complete title list) about the new content from 112 newspapers that GenealogyBank added to its online archives in February 2024... (Read More)

Photo: "Votes for Women" pennant, c. 1900. Credit: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; Wikimedia Commons.

African American Women: The Alpha Suffrage Club

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 28, 2018

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about some African American women leaders in the women’s suffrage movement... (Read More)

Illustration: "The Old Plantation" (anonymous folk painting), late 1700s. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Sleuthing: Reunited Black Families after the Civil War

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on June 14, 2017

An article about how newly-freed Blacks found missing members of their families after the Civil War using “missing person” ads in newspapers... (Read More)

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At This Time of Year: A Grateful Genealogist

By Thomas Jay Kemp on January 3, 2017

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his family history research using GenealogyBank... (Read More)

Freedom’s Journal (New York, New York), 16 March 1827, page 1

‘Freedom’s Journal’: The 1st African American Newspaper Published in America

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on February 26, 2016

A look at some of the articles published in the inaugural issue of Freedom’s Journal, the first African American newspaper published in America... (Read More)

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Historical African American Newspapers Online

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on February 25, 2016

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega explores a helpful resource for family history research: an online collection of African American newspapers... (Read More)

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: A Brief Genealogy & Family Tree

By Scott Phillips on January 18, 2016

An article showing how newspaper articles help document the genealogy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. .. (Read More)

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Resources to Trace African American Slave Ancestry

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 31, 2015

An article about two sources for information about ex-slaves: stories in old newspapers; and Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)

Photo: house at the Nicodemus National Historic Site, Kansas. Credit: National Park Service.

Nicodemus, Kansas: the History of America’s Black Towns

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on October 6, 2014

An article about Nicodemus, Kansas, a historic black town settled by African Americans at the end of Civil War Reconstruction... (Read More)

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