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AAS100: Introduction to African American Studies

Erica Bruchko, African American Studies & US History Librarian, berica@emory.edu

October 3, 2025

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Welcome & Introductions

Erica Bruchko

Librarian for African American Studies and US History

PhD History, Emory University

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Contact Information:

Berica@emory.edu

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  1. What do subject librarians do? How can they help me?
  2. Erica Bruchko, Librarian for US History and African American Studies
    1. berica@emory.edu
    2. Appointments Page

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Class Goals

Erica Bruchko

Librarian for African American Studies and US History

PhD History, Emory University

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Berica@emory.edu

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  • You’ll understand how to access the African American Studies Research Guide.
  • You’ll use the research guide to identify (a) reference sources (b) primary sources related to the Black press in the early 20th century.
  • You’ll share information that you learn about several important newspapers and editors with students in the class.

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Libraries.Emory.Edu

Erica Bruchko

Librarian for African American Studies and US History

PhD History, Emory University

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Berica@emory.edu

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Erica Bruchko

Librarian for African American Studies and US History

PhD History, Emory University

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Contact Information:

Berica@emory.edu

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Newspaper: The New York Age, https://search.libraries.emory.edu/catalog/9936500559802486

Dates: 1887-1953

Founding Editor: Thomas Fortune

Reference Source: Levy, S. (2013, May 31). Fortune, T. Thomas. Oxford African American Studies Center. Retrieved 3 Oct. 2025, from https://oxfordaasc-com.proxy.library.emory.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-34392.

Search Terms: National Afro-American League, “Race Question,” Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells

Article: New York Age (New York, New York), June 28, 1906: 2. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.library.emory.edu/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2%3A12B71576EF693118%40EANX-159A612E8D304050%402417390-1599C60F0564BCC0%401-1599C60F0564BCC0%40.

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Why Newspapers?

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African American newspapers and periodicals were “the most important and often only conduit for African American thought in the early years of Black publishing.” Because they were frequently denied a forum in white-owned magazines, newspapers, and publishing houses, African-American writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found a market for their work in their neighborhood Black periodicals. As such, they “offer a conduit into an almost self-contained universe of thought and feeling of the [African American] people.”

Henry Louis Gates, “Introduction,” African-American Newspapers and Periodicals.

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Newspaper Title & Editor List: https://tinyurl.com/AAS100NP

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5. Questions?

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Erica Bruchko

Librarian for African American Studies and US History

PhD History, Emory University

How will I engage with you this semester?

  • Research Workshop Leader
  • Consultation Facilitator
  • Class Librarian

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Contact Information:

Berica@emory.edu

Appointment Schedule

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