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African American Newspapers in Newark

African American Newspapers

The Newark Public Library has digitized their African American Newark Newspapers collection. The collection consists of individual issues of African-American newspapers published in Newark, including the Newark Herald, Advance, Herald Advance and New Jersey Herald News published from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The above collection does not include the New Jersey Afro-American, which was published in Newark from 1941 to 1988. Newark Public has the newspaper on microfilm, as does the Rutgers Alexander Library in New Brunswick.

The Dana Library has the following in the NEWARK Collection:

Black News
Published by: Black People of Newark
Vol.1 No.4 (1969)
NEWARK HX92 .N6B53

Black New ark
Published by: Committee for Unified Newark
Vol. 1 No. 5 (April 1972) - Vol. 2 No. 14 (Dec. 1973) [Incomplete]
Black New Ark 2(7), Julai 1973
NEWARK HX92 .N6B53

Unity and Struggle
Published by: Committee for Unified Newark
Vol. 3 No. 1 (Jan/Feb. 1974) - Vol. 8 No. 1/2 (Feb. 1979) [Incomplete]
NEWARK HX92 .N6B53

Putting the Black Ink Back into Print: Black Newark/Black New Art
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(1), Winter 2022, 34-49.
On the importance of Black Newark and the subsequent titles, for the history of Newark and the history of the Black Power movement.
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