Amsterdam News & Pittsburgh Courier to be available

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

FYI, the Amsterdam News and Pittsburgh Courier will be ready by summer or
fall....Rest assured, Nat Hentoff will still insist that Harlem was called
"the Big Apple" in 1919, despite zero evidence.
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_http://www.il.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/07/20070118a.shtml_
(http://www.il.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/07/20070118a.shtml)
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ProQuest Adds Two  Important Black Newspapers to ProQuest Historical
NewspapersTM and Black Studies  CenterTM
New York Amsterdam  News and Pittsburgh Courier Provide Unique Cultural
Perspective of Events  that Shaped the 20th Century

ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 18, 2007 --  This summer, ProQuest Information and
Learning is  introducing the New York Amsterdam News and Pittsburgh Courier to
its  growing collection of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Historical
Newspapers users can research events that shaped the United States,  including the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War,  and the Civil
Rights Movement, through the voice of two widely circulated  Black newspapers.
These titles may also be accessed through ProQuest Black  Studies Center, allowing
cross-searching with other content sets focused  on the African-American
experience




"These titles are invaluable for any scholar studying American history  and
African-American culture, history, politics and art," said Rod Gauvin,  senior
vice president of ProQuest Information and Learning. "These  additions will
open up new areas of research and offer vital comparison of  news stories from
New York Amsterdam News and Pittsburgh Courier with the  other national
newspapers and publications."
Both the New York Amsterdam News and Pittsburgh Courier served as
influential voices of the black community throughout the 20th  century.  New York
Amsterdam News (1922-1993), a leading Black  newspaper of the 20th century, was a
strong advocate for the desegregation  of the U.S. military during World War II,
and also covered the historic  Harlem Renaissance. The Pittsburgh Courier
(1911-2002), one of the most  nationally circulated Black newspapers, reached its
peak in the  1930s.  A conservative voice in the African-American community,
the  Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the
national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil
rights.
The New York Amsterdam News and Pittsburgh Courier are available  through
ProQuest Historical Newspapers.  The ProQuest Historical  Newspapers program
encompasses newspapers with deep historical value for  researchers in various
fields.  The New York Amsterdam News and  Pittsburgh Courier will join other
prestigious U.S. newspapers already in  the ProQuest program: The New York Times,
Chicago Tribune, The Washington  Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution,
The Boston Globe, The  Hartford Courant, The New York Tribune, The Wall
Street Journal, and The  Christian Science Monitor. All of the newspapers are
cross-searchable  within the award-winning ProQuest interface.
The new titles are also available through the Black Studies Center,
published by ProQuest's Chadwyck-Healey brand, allowing cross-searching  with other
content sets focused on the African-American experience.   Black Studies Center
is a digital resource that creates a framework for  undergraduate and graduate
level Black Studies courses and filling  information gaps that have stymied
research and study.  Black Studies  Center provides a central point of access
to the most sought-after  documents that chronicle and analyze the Black
experience.

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