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Pinnick, Timothy N. Finding and Using African American Newspapers. Wyandotte, OkIa.: Gregath Publishing Co., 2008. 71 pp. $25.
Finding and Using African American Newspapers, which is useful for both historians and genealogists, has two purposes: How to find black newspapers and then how to effectively mine their contents. Fot journalism historians, the first purpose will be the one of most interest.
Timothy N. Pinnick, a former public school teacher who is now an historical researcher and a lecturer, touches on a topic that particularly perplexes researchers who have little or no experience examining black newspapers. While it is relatively easy to find what white-owned, mainstream newspapers existed - looking in Editor & Publisher Year Book is frequently a good start - it is quite another thing to do this with many black papers. For example, there has been considerable disagreement among historians about how many black papers existed in the period from the end of the Civil...