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The AFRO American Newspapers, in cooperation with Google, are proud to present an extensive collection of digitally archived issues spanning over 100 years of history. The AFRO Archives...
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There was a paper that existed for five years called the Afro-Americanthat was founded by other folks, and our family purchased it in 1897. So, the two founders, as we call them, of the newspaper are John Henry Murphy Sr. and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Howard Murphy. Martha was the one who gave her husband $200 to purchase the paper. The money came...
Growing up in the Bay Area, almost every summer we would visit my grandmother in Baltimore. She had “Camp Granny” and all of her 16 grandchildren would go to church with her. We learned how to set the table properly. And we sold newspapers on the streets of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. But like most young people I wasn’t super-interested in the h...
The collection includes so much information about world history, as told from a Black perspective. It’s always a slightly different take than you might get from mainstream media organizations. And it is also an archive about the people of Baltimore, of Richmond, of all the cities where the Afro-American eventually operated. These archives belong to...
There’s so much to the collection beyond the newspapers and photographs. We have pamphlets from events that Afro employees might have gone to and organizations they were involved with such as the NAACP, the Urban League, the National Association of Black Journalists. And there’s business records for the Afroitself. There’s so much content there. Pe...
Researchers don’t currently have access—first the coronavirus pandemic limited access to the collection and now we are moving it. And it is frustrating, but ultimately we’re building the capacity to give unprecedented access to the collection. We’re undertaking a pilot program to help us understand what it will take to digitize and organize all the...
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Browse 96,204 Newspaper Archives of Baltimore Afro American in Baltimore, Maryland. Experience the history of Baltimore, Maryland by diving into Baltimore Afro American newspapers. Read news, discover ancestors, and relive the past as you search through Baltimore Afro American archives.
- Baltimore Afro American newspaper archives are collections of articles and news stories that have been published by Baltimore Afro American over ti...
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- Baltimore Afro American newspaper archives contain a wide range of content, including news articles, features, editorials, obituaries, and more. Th...
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The Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative has three prongs: (1) building African American historical collections at JHU, (2) establishing a citywide digital network integrating the holdings of local archival repositories, and (3) public exhibition programming.
Oct 14, 2023 · In the heart of a segregated Baltimore during the tumultuous 1920s, a powerful partnership blossomed between two iconic institutions—the AFRO-American Newspapers and the NAACP-Baltimore...
Weekly Vol. 24, no. 16 (Dec. 11, 1915)- Afro magazine appears, <1928>-1973. Issues for have titles in identification statement: Baltimore Afro-American; The Washington Afro-American & Washington tribune. Microfilm available from Recordak.
Oct 25, 2022 · COURTESY THE AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS ARCHIVES. Innovative reporting and filling in the details of the lives of their readers are only two of the legacies of The AFRO. Today the 4th and 5th generations of the founder’s family continue to run an operation with offices in Baltimore and Washington, DC. –Richard Messick
