ProQuest Unlocks New Paths for Research of Key African American Writers

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s seminal microfiche collection linked to digital texts for online exploration. Advances in the ProQuest research environment have streamlined access to a major literary collection assembled by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Scholars and students who rely on Dr. Gates’ ground-breaking Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection, can now quickly identify and connect to tens of thousands full-text, digitized versions of articles found through ProQuest’s Black Studies Center and Historical Black Newspapers.