Reading | Fort Worth, Texas
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This space serves as a recovery effort, an archival homage, to expand the view of Black Fort Worth, its history, its resources, and its enduring legacy. This is a listing in progress, and we hope to continue to add more to this landscape as we update this site.
Fort Worth Black-Owned and Distributed Newspapers/Periodicals
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Fort Worth Mind (Historical)
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Fort Worth Black News
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Fort Worth Eagle Eye Weekly (Historical)
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Lake Como Weekly (Historical)
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Sepia Magazine (Historical/National)
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Torchlight Appeal (Historical)
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The Spot Newsmagazine (Historical)
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La Vida News
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Polytechnic Herald (Historical)
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Holdings at Texas Wesleyan University Library
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Historic Southside Churches
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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
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Baker Chapel A.M.E. Church
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Love Chapel C.O.G.I.C.
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Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church
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Mount Zion Methodist Church
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Saint Andrews Methodist Church
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Sunshine Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Academic Scholarship
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Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas by Bruce A. Glasrud
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"Black and Blue in North Texas: The Long Neglected History of Anti-Black Police Violence in North Texas, 1880-1930" by Hollie A. Teague
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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White 165 Years of African-American Life by Richard F. Selcer
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"Death Concerns and Police Use of Force" by Hope Bentley (Undergraduate Honors Thesis)
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Social Media in Policing: A Study of Dallas-Fort Worth Area City Police Departments by Fuat Altunbas (Doctoral Dissertation)