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Professor Saundra Collins
Course: PSYC 246 Psychology of the Black Experience

Assignment: Find images of African Americans in advertisements aimed at selling products to
African Americans in publications dating from 1900-1950.
Search Suggestions: African Americans, skin, hair, shampoo, etc.

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Resources

Black Studies Center
Two historical Black newspapers, the Chicago Defender and the Daily Defender, can be found here.
Advertisements will show up listed as [display ad].

Crisis
The official publication of the NAACP.
Issues are online via the Google Books project.
Dates Availalble: (1910 - present)
Modernist Journals Project
The Crisis can also be found in this collection of magazines from the early 20th century.
Dates available: 1910 - 1922.
African-American Newspapers
Over 50 African-American newspapers that have been digitized and published online at the Library of Congress.
Ad*Access.
This is a collection of over 7,000 advertisements dating from 1911-1955.
Search suggestions: African Americans, skin, hair, shampoo, etc.,