Digitized Newspapers From Atlanta University Center Colleges Now Available on the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive Web Site

From the Digital Library of Georgia Blog:

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce that, in conjunction with the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library, several student newspapers from Spelman College, Atlanta Clark University, and Morris Brown College are now available for viewing at the Georgia Historic Newspapers web site.

These resources, part of the “Our Story”: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions project, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)’s Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

When studying historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), patrons will find these newspapers beneficial for interdisciplinary examinations of African American achievement, African American leadership, and student life. These publications are significant, in that they were a means of self-expression for African American students to convey their opinions of college life and society within a forum that validated their thoughts and opinions. Digitization of these publications could significantly increase the scholarship written about the AUC, enable patrons to enhance the historical record, and contribute to a more comprehensive narrative through the representation of the under-documented.

The publications include:

• The Spelman Spotlight
• The New Spelman Spotlight
• The Spotlight
• The BluePrint
• The Campus Mirror
• Clark Atlanta University Panther
• The Wolverine Observer

Learn More About the Collection and Each of these Newspapers in the Complete Blog Post

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