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Votes for Women
Professor Jones, Spring 2019
Recommended Sources: Dr. Jones
Starting in 1910, WEB DuBois and the NAACP published The Crisis magazine. It was a source among black Americans for news, culture, and analysis. And perhaps some of your figures were covered there. Have a look, and note that through 1922 the magazine is fully digitized at HathiTrust. Beyond that you can search and see "snippets." How can you get a full verision of an article that you can on see in "snippet?" Great question!
The Woman's Era was published out of Boston and covered news of the black women's club movement. If your research subject was active in that period, this is a source worth knowing about (and it is not a source included in other databases we have looked at.)
Alexander's Magazine is a literary and cultural magazine that includes news and biographical sketches about some of your women who were active in this period. We've already identified a sketch on Ida Jackson. Maybe someone you're looking for is there too!
Additional Resources in HathiTrust
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Alexander's Magazine, Volumes 1-7 (1905-1909)
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Colored American Magazine, Volumes 1-17/#5 (1900-1909)
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Competitor, Volumes 1-3/#4 (1920–1921)
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Crisis; A Record of the Darker Races, Volumes 1-47 (1910–1940)
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Half-Century Magazine, Volumes 1-18/#1 (1916-1925)
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Messenger; World's Greatest Negro Monthly, Volumes 1-10/#5 (1917-1928)
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Negro Quarterly, A Review of Negro Life and Culture, Numbers 1-4 (1942-1943)
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Opportunity; A Journal of Negro Life, Volumes 1-17 (1923-1939)
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Quarterly Review of Higher Education Among Negroes, Volumes 1–28 (1933-1960)
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Race Relations; A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends, Volumes 1-5 (1943-1948)
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Southern Frontier, Volumes 1-6 (1940–1945)
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Voice of the Negro, Volumes 1–4 (1904-1907)
Library Databases
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Ancestry LibraryAncestry Library lets you search public records for your biographical or genealogical research. Records from the US census, military, immigration, and vital records are available. While records are available from all continents, the focus of the collection is on North America and Europe.
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Accessible ArchivesAccessible Archives' databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.
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American Broadsides and EphemeraIncludes fully searchable facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. Broadsides and ephemera were an affordable way for many 18th- and 19th-century Americans to express their views, share news, or distribute their writings publicly. Nearly every town had a newspaper printer, and these printers kept their presses busy creating inexpensive material like broadsides, trade cards, billheads and ballads.
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Black Studies CenterBlack Studies Center combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
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Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online, 1543-1945This database is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages in full image. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of that country's feminist movement on other countries and their movements. The Gerritsen Collection also provides immediate access to many primary sources from around the world that were previously available only in
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History VaultResearchers can access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface. Subscribed collections include: Slavery and the Law; Papers of the NAACP, 1913-1965; Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial -1950North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
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Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries OnlineThe most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online allows students, scholars, and online researchers to experience the past through thousands of private writings and personal narratives. The resource is a unique forum that brings together the voices of ordinary men and women from all walks of life with the personal accounts of well-known historical figures. In their own words, people from diverse ethnic and social groups bring vividly to life hundreds of years of history through their perspectives on life, love, faith, politics, business, and countless personal events.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 91 document projects and archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. The scholar's edition also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Internet Resources
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HathiTrustThe HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. Johns Hopkins University is a HathiTrust member, so we have access to the entire collection. You must login with your JHED login and password to have access to the entire site.
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Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
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The Colored AmericanFrom 1900 to 1909, during a period of intensifying racial violence and black disfranchisement in the United States, the Colored American Magazine served a vital role in protesting injustice and contesting dominant representations of African American culture and history. The Digital Colored American Magazine makes freely available full-color reproductions of unbound or bound but unstripped issues of this important periodical, with scholarly commentary on selected issues.