Over 170 UMI research collections and dozens of newspapers  in microform provide rich content on the global Black experience—materials in African, African-American, and Caribbean studies; personal papers; organizational records; primary resources on the Civil War; genealogy tools; and much more. Your UMI representative is available to help you determine the best UMI content to fit your researchers' needs.

To learn about all UMI African-American and Africana Studies resources on microform, view our catalog. These are just a few of the highlights:

• Black Literature (1827-1940) - brings together for the first time novels, short stories, poems, and reviews scattered throughout 110 scarce black periodicals and newspapers. Click here to search the free online index for this collection.
• The Tuskegee Institute News Clipping File (1899-1966) - gives an expansive view of the years following emancipation in America.
• Black Leaders in American History - features three centuries of newspapers, periodicals, books, speeches, pamphlets, and documents surrounding key leaders.
• Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865) - includes the important writings, speeches, and correspondence of nearly 300 black abolitionists, materials long neglected in the studies of the anti-slavery movement that precipitated the Civil War.
• UMI Newspapers in Microform - tell stories from a uniquely black perspective. The collection features the Michigan Chronicle, Milwaukee Courier, Call & Post, Chicago Defender, Muslim Journal, Atlanta Daily World, and the Sun-Reporter.
• Hampton University Newspaper Clipping File (from the early 1900s) - provide a journalistic record of the continued struggle for liberation and equality after the Civil War
• Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
  —The Schomburg Collection  - includes full runs of books and periodicals.
  —Schomburg Clipping File - mirrors the worldwide black experience.
• HeritageQuest® collections in microform - including census and military data.

Contact your UMI representative for more information about our collections and newspapers in microform for Black Studies researchers: umisalesinfo@proquest.com or 1-800-521-0600 ext. 2793.