Chicago Defender to go online

[Mullins, Bill]

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.
>