Project to Digitize Black Newspapers Underway

Newspapers & Technology is reporting ( newsandtech.com/issues/2005/02-05/ot/02-05_blackpapers.htm ) about a project to digitize the archives of over 200 African-American newspapers and make them available online.

The project is a partnership between Amalgamated Publishers Inc. and Ninestars Information Technology Ltd. There's a lot to this project since many of the newspapers being digitized go back over a hundred years. The intent would be to create a single Internet site where all the newspapers would be searched.

Searching would be free but accessing the entire article would cost.

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