Florida Ethnic and Under-Represented Communities Digital Newspaper Project
FAIN: PJ-293081-23
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL 32611-0001)
Patrick Reakes (Project Director: January 2023 to present)
Melissa Jerome (Co Project Director: August 2023 to present)
This project also received funding with the previous award listed below.
Previous award PJ-50119-13
The digitization of 100,000 historical and multilingual newspapers from diverse ethnic and religious groups, as well as geographic locations in Florida for participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The University of Florida requests $275,743 to select, digitize and make available to the Library of Congress approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Titles for digitization will be selected for their ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic diversity to better reflect Florida history in the first half of the twentieth century. Areas of focus include significant multilingual papers from counties unrepresented in Chronicling America; Cuban papers from Miami and Tampa; Jewish newspapers from Jacksonville; and papers from Tarpon Springs, an area with a significant Greek population. These electronic resources will provide context and support for research into the historical basis of racial issues that continue today and seem particularly relevant with current scholarly and public discussions.