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Guide to Indexes of
Atlanta Newspapers
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1868-1925 (more years added
annually)
Atlanta
Constitution Historical offers searchable full-text
of the Atlanta Constitution.
1925-1954
Atlanta Constitution Card Index. This was originally
a card file index prepared by the State of Georgia Library
in the Judicial Building downtown. The index has a reputation
for being difficult to use due to lack of standardized
subject headings. Users should search under all possible
terms for a subject. It is now available on 16mm microfilm.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Microfilm
1668)
Georgia Department of Archives and History
Georgia State University Library
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
State of Georgia Library
1971-1979
Atlanta Constitution: A Georgia Index. The index
for these years was prepared by the Reference Department
of the Georgia State University Library. Subtitled "A
Georgia Index," it omits national or regional news that
does not concern Georgia.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Reference AI21
.A87 A84A)
Agnes Scott College Library
Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library
Georgia State University Library
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
Kennesaw State University Library
1980-March, 1982
The Reference Department at the Georgia State
University Library has a card file index for
these years. It is available for use in the department.
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Constitution and Atlanta Journal |
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January-June, 1982
The Atlanta Journal, the Atlanta Constitution Index.
In 1980, Microfilm Corporation of American, which had
been publishing The Atlanta Constitution: A Georgia
Index, notified Georgia State that they were taking
over the indexing. They only published the first six months
of 1982 before going out of business.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Reference AI21
.A5)
Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library
Georgia State University Library
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
Kennesaw State University Library
1983 to date
The Atlanta Journal, the Atlanta Constitution
Index. Published now by University Microfilms International.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Reference AI21
.A5)
Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library
Atlanta University Library
Georgia Perimeter College Library
Georgia State University Library
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
Kennesaw State University Library
Electronic access to these two newspapers is available
from:
1985 to date
The Stacks: from the
Archives of the Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution.
Index only to staff written and other selected articles.
To retrieve full text you must pay.
1997 to date
Newspaper
Source offers selected full-text articles from the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
1991 to date
Lexis-Nexis
Academic offers searchable full-text of the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
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Constitution, Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta Inquirer,
Atlanta Journal |
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1950-1970
Negro Progress in Atlanta, 1950-1960
Negro Progress in Atlanta, 1961-1969
These two volumes were prepared by Annie McPheeters,
a librarian at the Atlanta Public Library, and list
articles on Atlanta race relations.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library
(Reference Z1361 .N39 M2 /Reference Z1361 .N39 M21)
Georgia State University Library
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1977-1988
Indexed along with nine other African American newspapers
in Index to Black Newspapers (now Black Newspaper
Index). The Atlanta Daily World was dropped
from the index in 1989.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Reference AI3
.I443)
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1944-1979
Atlanta Journal Card Index. Thas was a card file index
maintained in the library of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. It was
filmed and put on microfiche in the early 1980's.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Microfiche 1550)
Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library (original card
file)
Atlanta Newspapers Library
Georgia State University Library
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
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1932-1982
The Atlanta Weekly was the Sunday supplement
to the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Originally
called the Atlanta Journal Magazine, for most
of its life it appeared under the title Atlanta Journal
& Constitution Magazine. Througout its history
it published notable articles concerning Atlanta, Georgia
and the Southeast authored by a large number of accomplished
writers. It is no longer published. A card file index
for the Sunday supplement is located in the Reference
Department offfice of the Woodruff Library at Emory.
It is available for use there.
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1970-1976
The Great Speckled Bird was Atlanta's counter-culture
newspaper from 1968 to 1976, It was revived briefly for ten
months in 1985/86. Indexed along with many other such newspapers
in Alternative Press Index.
Atlanta Locations
Emory University Woodruff Library (Reference AI 3 .A6)
Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library
Georgia State University
For comments or questions contact Jana Lonberger, American History Librarian, at jlonber@emory.edu.
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May 1, 2007
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