Chicago Defender to go online

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This is a nice addition, to go with the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore's Afro-American. Lots of stuff to look for, from "jazz" to "let George do it" (Chicago pullman porters) to "the hawk."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0505060210may06,1,2057824.story?coll=chi-technology-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Chicago Defender archives to go online sometime in 2006

Published May 6, 2005


The Chicago Defender, the nation's oldest African-American daily newspaper, has signed a deal with an online information service to make 70 years of its historic print archives available via the Internet, Executive Editor Roland Martin announced Thursday on the paper's 100th anniversary.

ProQuest Information and Learning of Ann Arbor, Mich., will digitize Defender microfiche from 1905 to 1975. The Defender archives include material documenting the great migration of blacks from the rural South, the Harlem renaissance and the civil rights movement.

The Defender is also digitizing its photo archives.

Both the print and photo archives will be available through www.chicagodefender.com by early 2006.