California NDNP 2023-25

FAIN: PJ-293096-23

Regents of the University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA 92521-0001)
Brian Geiger (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Digitization of a collection of mid-twentieth century African American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) requests $321,382 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize mid-twentieth-century African-American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area and contribute them to the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The CBSR participated in NDNP from 2005 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2020, receiving five two-year awards. We delivered over 500,000 pages for all five awards. If funded, this sixth award will be California’s “Civil Rights Era” contribution to NDNP, focusing on the state’s rapidly growing black populations in the postwar years.