This past summer, theDigital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of newly available titles.

Titles funded by the Burke County Genealogical Society

• • True Citizen (Waynesboro), 1926-1959

Titles funded by the Charter Foundation of Valley, Alabama and the Chipley Historical Center of Pine Mountain

• • Harris County Journal(Hamilton), 1920-1963

Titles funded by the Chattooga County Historical Society

• • Summerville News, 1971

Titles funded by the City of Covington

• • Covington News, 1969-1977

Titles digitized with a donation from Harry Thompson and Chris Jones

• • Thumb Tack Tribune (Athens), 1954-1959

Titles funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library

• • Atlanta Daily World, 1955-1963
  • Augusta Courier, 1946-1963
  • Colored Tribune (Savannah), 1875-1876
  • Savannah Tribune, 1876-1943

Titles funded by the Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University

• • Mercer Cluster (Macon), 1991-2022

Titles digitized in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)

• • Art Papers (Atlanta), 1981-1990
  • Atlanta Art Papers, 1980
  • Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Newspaper, 1977-1980
  • Contemporary Art/Southeast (Atlanta), 1977-1980

Titles funded by a donation from the Oconee Historical Society

• • Oconee Enterprise (Watkinsville), 1920-1977

Titles funded by a donation from the Wilkinson County Historical Society with a grant from the Oconee EMC Foundation

• • Wilkinson County News (Irwinton), 1925-1988

Titles digitized by the UGA Libraries

• • Community Enterprise (Macon), 1964-1965
  • Savannah Tribune, 1981-1995

Titles made available as part of UGA’s Libraries Digital Newspaper Preservation Project

• • Advance (Vidalia), 2025
  • Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville), 2024
  • Atlanta Intown, 2025
  • Baldwin Bulletin (Milledgeville), 2017-2024
  • Banks County News (Homer), 2024
  • Barrow News-Journal, 2024
  • Braselton News (Jefferson), 2024
  • Brookhaven Reporter, 2025
  • Buckhead Reporter, 2025
  • Champion (Decatur), 2025
  • Dawson County News, 2024
  • Dunwoody Reporter, 2025
  • Eatonton Messenger, 2015-2025
  • Fayette County News (Thomaston), 2025
  • Flagpole (Athens), 2025
  • Forsyth County News (Cumming), 2017-2024
  • Herald-Gazette (Barnesville), 2025
  • Herald-Journal (Greensboro), 2025
  • Islander (St. Simons Island), 2025
  • Jackson Herald (Jefferson), 2024
  • Jenkins County Times (Millen), 2025
  • Jones County News(Gray), 2015-2025
  • Lake Oconee News (Greensboro), 2015-2025
  • Lee County Ledger (Leesburg), 2025
  • Madison County Journal (Hull), 2024
  • McDuffie Progress  (Thomson), 2019-2023
  • Millen News, 2025
  • Monroe County Reporter (Forsyth), 2024
  • Monticello News, 2013-2021
  • Oconee Enterprise(Watkinsville), 2014-2025
  • Oglethorpe Echo (Crawford), 2025
  • Pickens County Progress (Jasper), 2024
  • Pike County Journal and Reporter (Zebulon), 2025
  • Sandy Springs Reporter, 2025
  • Savannah Tribune, 2025
  • StarNews (Carrollton), 2024
  • Sylvester Local News, 2014-2024
  • Taylor County News and the Butler Herald, 2023-2024
  • Times (Gainesville), 2024
  • Tribune & Georgian (St. Marys) 2025
  • True Citizen (Waynesboro), 2025
  • Upson Beacon (Thomaston), 2024-2025
  • Walker County Messenger (LaFayette), 2025
  • Wiregrass Farmer (Ashburn), 2025

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the digitization of several historically significant Black-owned Georgia newspapers with partial funding assistance from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. The newspapers are now available on both the DLG’sGeorgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) websiteand the Library of Congress’Chronicling America website.

The newspapers include:

• Atlanta Inquirer, 1960-1963 – Founded during the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960 to cover the news of civil rights activities in the city.
• Atlanta World/Atlanta Daily World, 1931-1963 – The oldest African American newspaper published in Georgia’s capital and one of the nation’s first Black-owned daily newspapers.
• Colored Tribune/Savannah Tribune, 1886-1943 – Founded in 1875, the Tribune, except for two hiatuses, is one of the longest-running African American newspapers in the South.
• SavannahHerald, 1946-1963 – The paper became of the voice of Black life in Coastal Georgia in the decades that followed the end of World War II.

These publications are invaluable resources for understanding the history and daily lives of Georgia’s Black residents during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras of American History. They are now freely available online and can be keyword searched or browsed by date.

The project is part of the University of Georgia Libraries’ participation in theNational Digital Newspaper Program. NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress. TheAtlanta Daily World microfilm was lent to the Libraries by theAuburn Avenue Research Library.

The Georgia Historic Newspapers website is the result of a funding partnership between the University of Georgia Libraries andGALILEO, Georgia’s virtual library.