Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

10/1/1977 - 5/31/1980

Funding Totals

$108,822.00 (approved)
$108,822.00 (awarded)


Index of Letters, Biographies and Obituaries in Black and Reform Newspapers

FAIN: RT-*1353-77

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
John W. Blassingame (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

To prepare a three-volume annotated index of letters, biographies, and obituaries in 282 black and reform newspapers which will be verified, alphabetized, and transcribed for publication. Of interest to genealogists, historians, and students of literature, Afro-American life and culture, abolitionists, women's rights, music, and education.