Scope and arrangement
This collection includes issues of black newspapers (foreign and domestic) which have been retained as representative samples of these publications. In most cases the issues which appear here are the only ones held by the Center. In other cases, however, the Schomburg has scattered or incomplete files in its newspaper collection or on microfilm. The newspapers included here are only selected samples. They do not reflect either the quantity or the diversity of the Schomburg Center's newspaper holdings.
The citations in the inventory includes the title of each paper, its place of publication, date of publication, and where available, the volume and issue numbers. The newspapers were microfilmed in 1971; new titles acquired between 1971 and 1994 were microfilmed separately as "Additions". Reels 1-3 were filmed by NYPL and reel 4 was filmed by Scholarly Resources Inc.
Arrangement
The newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title.