Chicago Defender to go online

[Mullins, Bill]

The Chicago Defender is now in SABR's subscription to the ProQuest
Historical Newspaper database.  Current coverage is 1935 - 1967, with
one issue from 1932 and another from 1921.

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> ProQuest's web page:
> http://www.proquest.com/products/pt-product-HistNews.shtml
> is now predicting late 2005 for this.
>
> Hopefully it will be included in SABR's subscription.
>
>
> >
> > 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."
> > ...
> > ...
> > http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0505060210may06,1
> > ,2057824.story?coll=chi-technology-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
> > ...
> > 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.
> >
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