Indianapolis Recorder newspaper goes digital

INDIANAPOLIS — A newspaper that’s covered Indianapolis’ black community since the 19th century has gone digital, making more than a century of black history available free online.

University Library staff members at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis recently completed digitizing more than 5,000 issues of the Indianapolis Recorder dating from 1899 to 2005.

The newspaper granted IUPUI’s University Library the copyright permission needed to create the online archive, which is available at: http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/Irecorder.

Missing from the historical record are issues of the Recorder published from 1917 to 1925, and January to April of 1932. Library staffers are hoping someone might have copies of those missing issues stashed in their homes and turn them over to the library to be added to the database.