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BLACK IN MISSOURI

Selected Topics

John Berry Meachum

James P. Beckwourth

Missouri Compromise

Winny v. Whitesides

Merry v. Tiffin & Mernard

Trammel v. Adams

William Wells Brown

Rachel v. Walker

Francis McIntosh

Elijah Lovejoy

Jennings v. Kavanaugh

Tom Bass

James Milton Turner

Dred Scott

Hiram Young

Augustus Tolton

Elizabeth Keckley

Celia

Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis

First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment

62nd US Regiment of Colored Infantry

John William Blind Boone

George Washington Carver

Albert Burgess

St. Louis Palladium

Lehew v. Brummell

Black 7th Regiment of the Immunes

James Langston Hughes

Annie Turnbo Malone

William "Count" Basie

Easter Weekend Lynchings in Springfield

Josephine Baker

Satchel Page

Nathaniel C. Bruce

Homer G. Phillips

Charles Turpin

J.E. Perry

St. Louis Argus

W.C. Handy

1916 St. Louis Segregation Ordinance

Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls, Tipton

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois Race Riot

1918 Missouri Negro Industrial Commission

Mound City Bar

Kansas City Call

Walthall Moore

Charlie "Bird" Parker

Red Foxx (John E. Sanford)

Kansas City Monarchs

St. Louis American

Ivory Perry

William J. Thompkins

Lester A. Walton

Lloyd Gaines

1939 Sharecroppers Strike (Missouri bootheel)

State ex rel Bluford v. Canada

Cleo Wright lynching (Sikeston)

J.D. and Ethel Shelley

Oscar S. Ficklin

Judge Sam Blair

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Theodore McMillen

Missouri Human Rights Commission

Theodore McNeal

DeVerne Calloway

Jefferson Bank Boycott

Percy Green

Missouri Public Accommodations Act of 1965

David E. McPherson

1968 Kansas City Riot

William L. Clay, Sr.

St. Louis Sentinel

Gwen B. Giles

Paula Woodruff

Debbye Turner

Emmanuel Cleaver II

Freeman Bosley, Jr.

Ronnie L. White

Maya Angelou

Maxine Waters

Alice Faye Wattleton

William H. Lawrie

Jackie Robinson

Scott Joplin

Oliver Cromwell

Earl D. Shaw

John Lang, Jr.

Chuck Berry

Anne-Louise Wallace

Bolivar Slave Revolt

Rachel Goings

Underground Railroad

Melvin Tolson

Fannie Tolson

Augustine Tolton

Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

Panhandle Slim (Cecil Williams)

James Milton Turner

George Coleman Poage

James Scott (lynching Columbia)

Lorenzo Green

Luke Easter

Moses Dickson

Grace Bumbry

Blanche Kelso Bruce

Hiram Rhodes Revel

George Washington Bush

Robert McFerrin Sr.

Walter Majors

Kinloch

Virvus Jones

http://www.limelightnews.com/

Margaret Bush Wilson

Ntozake Shange

Pruitt-Igoe

Carr Square Village

Ron Himes

Julius Hunter

Marian Oldham

Arvarh Strickland

Henry Kirklin

Soldan High School

Sumner High School

Getting Started: a Sampling of Resources

The African American almanac [electronic resource]

The African American encyclopedia

The African American experience : an historiographical and bibliographical guide

The African-American experience at the University of Missouri, 1950-1994

The African-American experience on file

Black heritage book of trivia

Black women in America [electronic resource]

The complete idiot's guide to African American history

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history [electronic resource]

Encyclopedia of Black studies [electronic resource]

Missouri's African American History (MO State Archives)

The Negro almanac : a reference work on the African-American

Notable Black American men

Notable Black American women

1,999 facts about Blacks : a sourcebook of African-American achievement

Reference library of Black America

Science & discovery : 325 questions

Who's who among African Americans

Who's who in colored America

AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM
AT THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI

CHARLESTON - Mississippi County

Spokesman
August 18-31, 1934
(on roll with Sikeston Southeast Missouri World)

COLUMBIA - Boone County

Blackout
Nov 20, 1969 (microfiche)

Columbia Community Voice (hard copies only)
Feb 1994 - Mar 1997 very scattered issues

Professional World
Nov 1, 1901 - Dec 25 1903

HANNIBAL - Marion County

Home Protective Record
May 14, Aug 20, Oct 8, Dec 31, 1914

JEFFERSON CITY - Cole County

Western Messenger (Baptist)
Jan 9, 1914-Dec 1, 1916
(moved to St. Louis)

KANSAS CITY - Jackson County

American
Jun 21, 1928-Jan 12, 1933

Baptist Record
Jan 27-Feb 17, 1921
(on roll with Kansas City Western Messenger)

Call
Nov 1, 1919; Jan 7, 1922-present

Globe
Jan 31, 1986; Jly 24, Aug 14, Oct 2, Nov 13, 27, Dec 25, 1992; Jan 1, Mar 19-Apr 9, 23, 1993-Feb 25, May 6, 1994-present

Inter-State Herald
Aug 1, 1903-Apr 2, 1904

Liberator
Jan 2-Dec 24, 1903

Missouri State Post
May 21, Jun 4, Dec 31, 1987; Jan 14, May 5, 19, Jly 21, 28-Aug 18, 1988; Oct 18, 1990; Oct 3, 1991-May 7, 1992

Rising Son
Jan 16, 1903-Dec 28, 1907

Son
Dec 7, 1912

Sun
Jan 10, 1914-Jun 7, 1924

Western Christian Recorder (AME Church)
Oct 26, 1911-Sep 16, 1915

Western Messenger (Baptist)
August 2-Oct 11, Nov 1, 8, Dec 6, 1918; Jan 2-Dec 19, 1919; Jan 2-Feb 27, Mar 12, 26-May 20, Jun 4, 9, 18-Aug 27, Sep 24-Oct 8, 1920

ST. LOUIS - Independent City

American
Jly 14, Sept 8, 1949-present

Argus
Jan 1, 1915-Dec 13, 1918; Feb 21, 1919-Oct 17, 1969; Mar 6, 1970-Dec 28, 1972; Mar 8, 1973- Dec 23, 1982; Jun 28-Aug 23, Nov 1, 15, Dec 6, 1984; June 26, 1986 (many missing issues)

Palladium
Jan 10, 1903-Oct 5, 1907

Sentinel
Mar 16 1968-present

Western Messenger (Baptist)
Dec 16 1916-Nov 24, 1917

SEDALIA - Pettis County

Weekly Conservator
May 8, 1903-Dec 23 1905; Jan 6-17, Feb 17-Mar 10, 24, Jly 21, Aug 4, Dec 24, 1906; Jan 7-28, Feb 11-Mar 4, 18-May 13, 25-Jly 15, 29-Aug 5, 26, Dec 9-23, 1907; Jan 6, 20, 27, Feb 10-Mar 9, 23, Apr 5-26, May 11-Jun 15, 29-Aug 31, Sep 14, 21, 1908

Times
Aug 31, 1901-Dec 29, 1903; Jan 21-Feb 4, 1905

SIKESTON - Scott County

Southeast Missouri World
Nov 25, 1939

Online Searching Techniques

SELECTED DATABASES

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)
    Index to major journals and magazines in all subject areas. Many articles are full-text. Updated continually. Generally, coverage is 1984 to date. Click on "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" to limit search results to research articles.
  • America History and Life
  • America History and Life contains citations and abstracts of books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2,000 journals published worldwide. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
  • American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
    American Civil War: Letters and Diaries offers full-text searchable letters and diaries of soldiers and noncombatants on both sides of the U.S. Civil War. The database can be searched and browsed in many ways, including by U.S. state, topics described, year of writers death, Union or Confederate loyalty, and other variables.
  • C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
    C19 Index provides access to nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Is the subject, title and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at accredited institutions. It also includes many Canadian dissertations as well as dissertations form Europe and abstracts from Masters Abstracts.
  • Early American Newspapers. Series 1, 1690-1876
    Also Known as: Early American Newspapers; America's Historical Newspapers; Archive of Americana
    This collection provides images and full-text content access to a selection of historic newspapers based on Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and additional subsequent bibliographies.
  • Ebsco Host
    Indexes about 2600 popular magazines, with complete text available for about 1/3 of the titles. Coverage for most magazines begins with 1993. Of particular interest is the inclusion of the complete text for over 600 consumer health pamplets. Provided courtesy of MORENET.
  • GenderWatch
    GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues.
  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
  • Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
    Historic Missouri Newspaper Project is a database of searchable full-image of some years from 14 Missouri newspapers.
  • Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
    Contains 65,000 pages with articles, illustrations, cartoons and maps drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers published from 1860 to 1865, from four viewpoints� Union, Confederate, Abolitionist, and British. Every page has been scanned to grayscale or color standards at up to 1200 dpi. The database also includes essays detailing the background and importance of each of the publications and on Civil War topics.
  • InfoTrac Diversity Studies Collection
    This collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. Access provided by MOREnet.
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR is a full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance.
  • LION: Literature Online
    LION: Literature Online provides access to English language literature in full-text, reference works, bibliographies, web pages and full-text journals.
  • Making of Modern Law - Trials 1600-1926
    Making of Modern Law - Trials 1600-1926 contains over 7,000 trial transcripts from Harvard, Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York give scholars insight on class structure and the making of modern law. Access provided to the campus by the MU Law Library.
  • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the premier music encyclopedia. Includes the New Grove Dictionaries of Jazz and Opera.
  • NewsBank
    NewsBank indexes the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as news articles about regional and state events and issues.
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries
    North American Women's Letters and Diaries provides access to full-text letters & diaries by 687 North American women from colonial times to 1950.
  • Project Muse
    Project Muse provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers
    ProQuest Historical Newspapers digitally reproduces every issue of the New York Times (1851-2005) and the Wall Street Journal (1889-1991) from cover-to-cover. It provides full page-image and full-text searching of these newspapers.
  • Race Relations Abstracts
    Indexes over 300 publications that deal with race and related topics worldwide.
  • Reader's Guide Restrospective 1890-1982
    Readers Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978
    U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.
  • U.S. Statutes at Large
    Is part of the Congressional Universe database. Full-text access to the laws of the United States from 1789 to the present. Includes public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, presidential proclamations, treaties with foreign nations (through 1849) and all treaties with Native American tribes. Allows user to retrieve an original law and all its amendments.
  • Current Research@MU
    Indexes MU dissertation from 1899 to present. Provides full-text of MU dissertations from 1995 to present. Print copies of pre-1995 MU dissertations are held at the UM Depository and can be requested using MERLIN.


FINDING THE FULL-TEXT OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

If you're looking at results in one of the databases listed above, just click on the article linker button next to the article citation. The article will display if it's available electronically. If there is no online access, you'll be given the opportunity to look for a print copy in the MERLIN Catalog.

If you have an article reference, but are not currently in a database, go to the MU Libraries' Gateway page and click "Find a Specific Article or Journal" link on the left hand side of the page. Type in the name of the journal or, if you have the citation, a specific journal article. If electronic coverage is not available, check the MERLIN Catalog to see if we have a print subscription to the journal. MU Libraries does not subscribe to all journal titles.

If you find a journal article that you need, but cannot find the article using article linker, fill out a journal article request form. You will need to register the first time you use our interlibrary loan service https://ill.mul.missouri.edu/MUU/logon.html. Usually you will receive the article electronically via email within a few days of placing your request.

•Endnote sessions and zotero http://www.zotero.org/ compatible with Mozilla


Finding Periodicals

MERLIN

Check to see library holdings for periodicals by doing a Journal, Newspaper, Magazine Title Search. .

http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://finditatmu.library.missouri.edu

Check for electronic availability of periodicals.

Perform a subject search in MERLIN using the words african americans periodicals and or blacks periodicals.

Index to the Schomburg clipping file

G.K. Hall index to Black periodicals

Index to Black periodicals

Index to periodical articles by and about Blacks

Index to periodical articles by and about Negroes

A Guide to negro periodical literature

Selected Periodicals

Mizzou Black alumni

Journal of the National Medical Association

Journal of the National Medical Association Archives

Selected Books

Ain't but a place : an anthology of African American writings about St. Louis

America's black towns and settlements : a historical reference guide
Behind ghetto walls : black families in a federal slum

Black families of the Ozarks

Black liberation in the Midwest : the struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970

Catfish and crystal
Columbia... our past is... our future : from Douglass School to the world!

The Curt Flood story : the man behind the myth

Finding freedom : the untold story of Joshua Glover, runaway slave

George Washington Carver : scientist, inventor, and teacher

Gone but not forgotten : Quinette Cemetery, a slave burial ground, est. 1866

Heartland history : essays on the cultural heritage of the central Missouri region

Kinloch : Missouri's first black city

Missouri slave narratives : a folk history of slavery in Missouri from interviews with former slaves : typewritten records

Missouri's Black heritage

Nathan B. Young and the struggle over Black higher education

On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker

"Our black children" [microform] : the evolution of black space in Columbia, Missouri

Pastor Jenkins said, "Hang on to Matthew 6:33" : autobiography of Robert H. King, Ph. D.

People of color : Black genealogical records and abstracts from Missouri sources

Press coverage of lynchings in Missouri : an analysis of the newspaper coverage of black and white lynch

Published in the interest of colored people : the St. Louis Argus newspaper in the twentieth century

Runaway and freed Missouri slaves and those who helped them, 1763-1865

The St. Louis African American community and the Exodusters

Satchel Paige and company : essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, their greatest star and the Negro leagues

Take up the Black man's burden : Kansas City's African American communities, 1865-1939

What a grave undertaking : Quinette Cemetery, a slave burial ground, est. 1866

Stories from the heart : Missouri's African American heritage


Selected Electronic Resources

A grave injustice [electronic resource] : institutional terror at the State Industrial Home for negro girls and the paradox of delinquent reform in Missouri, 1888-1960

African American women, civic activism, and community building strategies in St. Louis, Missouri, 1900-1954

Historic Black communities [videorecording]

Locate Materials in Ellis Library (Location Guide)

Use the guide below to determine which floor of Ellis holds a particular call number.

B to HE contains B, BA, BB, BC.. C, D, .. H, HA, HB, .. HE
2 East = 2nd floor of Ellis, East book stacks.
HSL = Health Sciences Library

AC to AZ 4 East
B to HE 3 East
HF to LT 2 East
M to NX 4 East
P to PG 2A West
PH to PQ 2999 3 Central
PQ 3000 to QK 2 East
QL to QR 2 Central
QS to QZ HSL
R to RZ 2 Central
S to SK 2 West
T to TX 1A West
U to VM 1 West
W to WZ HSL
Z to ZA 1 West


Helpful Links

My Library Accounts

Hours

Maps

Google Directory

Web Sites

Museums, Libraries, & Historical Societies

Missouri History Museum
Black World History Wax Museum
African American Portrait Collection
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
St. Louis Walk of Fame
Griot Museum of Black History and Culture
American Jazz Museum
St. Louis Public Library
Afro-Americans in Missouri
Directory of Historical Societies in Missouri
(Please be aware that there is a Boone County Historical Society and that the State Historical Society on campus has an uncatalogued collection of materials on black fraternal organizations.)
Western Historical Manuscript Collection

CITATION GUIDES

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and the MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing are shelved behind Ellis Library's Reference Desk on the south side of the first floor. We also have a link to style manuals online .

If you have any questions:
Paula Roper
168 Ellis Library
882-3326
RoperP@missouri.edu