UNITED STATES

Alabama

The Negro Farmer. (Alabama)
1914-1915

The Negro Farmer and Messenger. (Alabama)
1915-1917

The Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro. (Alabama)
1912 - 1952, covering 1911 - 1951

Service. (Alabama)
1:1 (August, 1936) - 18:12 (July, 1954)

Southern Worker. (Birmingham)
1 (1930) - 7 (1937)

California

The Pacific Appeal. (San Francisco, CA)
April 5, 1862 - ??

District of Columbia

The African Intelligencer. (Washington, D. C.)
1:1 (July, 1820)

The African Repository and Colonial Journal. (Washington, D. C.)
1:1 (March, 1825) - 68:1 (January, 1892)

Colored American. (Washington, DC)
1895?

Journal of Negro Education. (Washington, D. C.)
1 (1932)--.

Journal of Negro History. (Washington, D. C.)
1 (1916)--.

National Era. (Washington, D. C.)
#1 (1847) - #690 (March 22, 1860)

National Negro Health News. (Washington, D. C.)
1:1 (January/March, 1933) - 18:2 (April/June, 1950)

Negro History Bulletin. (Washington, D. C.)
1 (1937)--

The Negro Music Journal. (Washington, D. C.)
1902-1903

Georgia

The Colored American. (Augusta, GA)
December 16, 1865 - January 13, 1866

Phylon [Quarterly]. (Atlanta)
1 (1940) - 45 (1984)

Savannah Weekly Echo. (Savannah, GA)
1879 - 1884

Southern Frontier. (Atlanta)
1 (1940) - 6 (1945)

Southern Voices. (Atlanta)
1:1 (March/April, 1974) - 1:4 (October/November, 1974)

Voice of the Negro. (Atlanta & Chicago)
1 (1904) - 4 (1907)

The Weekly Defiance. (Atlanta, GA)
1881 - 1889

Illinois

The Half-century Magazine. (Chicago)
1:1 (August, 1916) - 18:1 (January & February, 1925)

Negro Digest. (Chicago)
1 (1942) - 19 (1970)

Negro Story. (Chicago)
1:1 (May & June, 1944) - 2:3 (April & May, 1946)

Voice of the Negro. (Atlanta & Chicago)
1 (1904) - 4 (1907)

Kentucky

Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Magazine. (Kentucky)
1:1 (May 7, 1822) - 1:12 (April, 1823)

The Bulletin. (Louisville, KY)
1879? - ??

Louisiana

The Black Republican. (New Orleans, LA)
April 15, 1865 - ??

The Crusader. (New Orleans, LA)
February 16, 1889 - 1891?

The Echo. (Saint Martinville, LA)
March 30, 1872 - 1878

The Observer. (Baton Rouge, LA)
September 16, 1899 - 1900

The Republican Courier. (New Orleans, LA)
July 1, 1899 - 1900

Southern Republican. (New Orleans, LA)
1898 - 1907

Maryland

The American Citizen. (Baltimore, MD)
February 8, 1879 - ??

National Educational Outlook among Negroes. (Baltimore)
1:1 (September, 1937) - 3:5 (June, 1940)

Massachusetts

The Abolitionist, or Record of the New England Anti-slavery Society. (Boston)
1 (1833)

Alexander's Magazine. (Boston)
1:1 (May 15, 1905) - 7:5&6 (March-April, 1909)

Challenge. (Boston)
1:1 (March, 1934) - 2:1 (Spring, 1937)

Colonizationist and Journal of Freedom. (Boston)
April, 1833 - April, 1834

Colored American Magazine. (Boston & New York)
1900-1909

The Freedman. (Boston)
1 (1864) - 6:3 (March, 1869)

The Freedman's Journal. (Boston)
1:1 (January, 1865) - 2:12 (December, 1866)

Liberator. (Boston)
1:1 (January 1, 1831) - 35:? (December 29, 1865)

The Liberty Bell. (Boston)
#1 (1839) - #15 (1858)

Monthly Offering. (Boston)
1:1 (July, 1840) - 2:? (November/December, 1842)

New York

The African. (New York City)
1:1 (October, 1937) - 6:4/5 (April/May, 1948)

American Anti-slavery Reporter. (New York City)
1:1 (January, 1834) - 1:8 (August, 1834)

American Jubilee. (New York City)
1:1 (March, 1854) - 1:12 (April, 1855)

Anglo-African Magazine. (New York City)
1859-1862

The Anti-slavery Examiner. (New York City)
1:1 (August, 1836) - 14 (1845?)

The Anti-slavery Record. (New York City)
1:1 (January, 1835) - 3:12 (December, 1837)

Anti-slavery Reporter. (New York City)
1:1 (June, 1833) - 1:6 (November, 1833)

Anti-slavery Tracts. (New York City)
#1 (1855) - #20 (1856); new series #1 (1860) - #25 (1862)

Color Line: A Monthly Round-up of Facts. (Mt. Vernon, N. Y.)
1:1 (July & August, 1946) - 2:2 (July-August, 1947)

The Colored American. (New York City)
March 4, 1837 - December 25, 1841

Colored American Magazine. (Boston & New York)
1900-1909

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. (New York City)
1:1 (November, 1910) --.

The Crusader. (New York City)
1:1 (September, 1918) - 6:1 (January-February, 1922)

Douglass' Monthly. (Rochester, N. Y.)
1:8 (January, 1859) - 5:10 (August, 1863)

Fire!! (New York City)
1:1 (November, 1926)

Frederick Douglass' Paper. (Rochester, NY)
1851 - 1860?

The Freeman. (New York City)
November 11, 1884 - December 6, 1884

The Freedmen's Advocate. (New York City)
1:1 (January, 1864) - 2:1 (January, 1865)

Freedom's Journal. (New York City)
#1 (March 16, 1827) - #104 (March 28, 1829)

Harlem Quarterly. (New York City)
1:1 (Winter, 1949/50) - 1:3&4 (Fall & Winter, 1950)

The Messenger: World's Greatest Negro Monthly. (New York City)
1:1 (November, 1917) - 10:5 (May & June, 1928)

National Anti-slavery Standard. (New York City)
1:1 (June 11, 1840) - 30:50 (April 16, 1870)

The National Freedman: A Monthly Journal of the National Freedman's Relief Association. (New York City)
1:1 (?February, 1865) - 2:9 (September, 1866)

The National Principia. (New York)
#233 (April 12, 1866) - #235 (June 14, 1866)

The Negro Quarterly. (New York City)
1:1 (Spring, 1942) - 1:4 (Winter/Spring, 1943)

The Negro World. (New York)
1917 - 1933

New Challenge. (New York City)
1:1 (March, 1934) - 2:2 (Fall, 1937)

New York Age. (New York City)
October 15, 1887 - February 27, 1960

New York Amsterdam News. (New York City)
December 4, 1909--.

New York Freeman. (New York City)
December 13, 1884 - October 8, 1887)

New York Globe. (New York City)
1880 - November 8, 1884

The New York Principia. (New York City)
#229 (January 11, 1866) - #232 (March 8, 1866)

The North Star. (Rochester, NY)
December 3, 1847 - Arpil 17, 1851

Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life. (New York City)
1:1 (January, 1923) - 27:1 (Winter, 1949)

The Principia. (New York City)
#1 (November 19, 1859) - #226 (August 25, 1864)

The Principia and National Era. (New York City)
#227 (June 29, 1865) - #228 (July 6, 1865)

Race. (New York City)
#1 (Winter, 1935/1936) - #2 (Summer, 1936)

Radical Abolitionist. (New York City)
1:1 (August, 1855) - 4:5 (December, 1858)

Rights of All. (New York City)
May 29, 1829 - October 9, 1829

Weekly Advocate. (New York City)
1:1 (January 7, 1837) - 1:8 (February 25, 1837)

North Carolina

The N.C. Republican, and Civil Rights Advocate. (Weldon, NC)
May 15, 1884? - ??

Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes. (North Carolina)
1 (1933) - 37 (1969)

The True Reformer. (Littleton, NC)
1899 - 1909?

Ohio

The Cincinnati Weekly Herald and Philanthropist. (Cincinnati)
1:1 (January 1, 1836) - 11:? (December 1, 1846)

The Colored Citizen. (Cincinnati, OH)
November 7, 1863 - 1869?

The Gazette. (Cleveland, OH)
1892 - ??

Genius of Universal Emancipation. (Ohio)
1:1 (July, 1821) - 16 (1839)

The Negro College Quarterly. (Ohio)
1:1 (March, 1943 - 5:? (June, 1947)

Philanthropist. (Ohio)
August 29, 1817 - May 15, 1822.

Pennsylvania

African Observer. (Philadelphia)
1827-1828

The Brown American. (Philadelphia)
1 (1936) - 5 (1945)

The Competitor. (Pittsburgh)
1:1 (January, 1920) - 3:4 (June, 1921)

The Freedman's Friend. (Philadelphia)
#1 (1864) - #20 (1883)

Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal. (Philadelphia)
1:1 (September 4, 1847) - 48:? (July 5, 1894)

The Juvenile Magazine. (Philadelphia)
#1 (1811) - #4 (1813)

The Non-slaveholder. (Philadelphia)
1 (1846) - 5 (1850); new series, 1 (1853) - 2 (1854)

South Carolina

The Georgetown Planet. (Georgetown, SC)
1873 - 1875?

Missionary Record. (Charleston, SC)
1868 - 1879?

New South. (Beaufort, SC)
1889? - 1898?

Palmetto Leader. (Columbia, SC)
January 10, 1925 - ??

Tennessee

The Emancipator. (Tennessee)
April 30, 1820 - [October] 31, 1820.

Events and Trends in Race Relations. (Nashville)
4:6 (January, 1947) - 4:12 (July, 1947)

Justice. (Chattanooga, TN)
1887 - 1888?

A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends in Race Relations. (Nashville)
1:1 (August, 1943) - 4:5 (December, 1946)

Race Relations: A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends. (Nashville)
5:1-2 (October-November, 1947) - 5:9-12 (June - December, 1948)

Virginia

The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association. (Virginia)
1912-1949

Richmond Planet. (Richmond, VA)
1883 - May 28, 1938

The Southern News. (Richmond, VA)
August 20, 1892 - 1894?

The Virginia Star. (Richmond, VA)
1877 - 1888

NON-U.S.

England

The Anti-slavery Reporter. (London)
1:1 (January 1, 1846) - 7:82 (October 1, 1852); new series 1:1 (January 1, 1853) - 22:6 (December 23, 1880); series 4 1:1 (January 19, 1881) - 29:2 (March-May, 1909)

The Anti-slavery Reporter and Aborigines Friend. (London)
series 5 1:1 (October, 1909) - 34:4 (January, 1945); series 6 1:1 (April, 1945) - 12:7 (November, 1980)

The British and Foreign Anti-slavery Reporter. (London)
#1 (January 15, 1840) - #158 (December 24, 1845)

The Freed-man. (London)
#1 (August, 1865) - #37 (August, 1868)

Slavery in America. (London)
#1 (July, 1836) - #14 (August, 1837)

Germany

Negro Worker. (Hamburg, Germany)
1 (1931) - 7 (1937)

Jamaica

National Negro Voice. (Kingston, Jamaica)
1:1 (July 19, 1941 - 1:11 (September, 27, 1941)

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