Scholars estimate that some 3,000 African-American owned and operated newspapers have been produced since Freedom's Journal,* the first African-American newspaper was founded in 1827.
This selective research guide is intended to highlight a variety of
print, electronic, and microform resources available for research that
involves African American newspapers and journalism.
*See African American Newspapers: The 19th century in the Electronic Newspaper Collections section of this guide.
When was Freedom's Journal, the first black newpaper, founded?
