Abstract The Grand Rapids Press is the longest running newspaper in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is still actively published. This collection contains newspaper clippings, images and documents about the Press and by the Press, given to the Library from a variety of sources. The collection is not comprehensive in its content, but offers a sampling of the history of the newspaper. Early items relate to the Newsboys and Newsboys Band. Also included are negatives for news stories from the 1960s and 1970s....

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This collection contains photocopies of newspaper clippings reporting the lives of African Americans in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The newspaper clippings cover a hundred year period, from 1830 to 1936. They include mostly Grand Rapids newspapers but are supplemented with clippings from Chicago and other Michigan newspapers. Review and collection of the articles was primarily done by the donor, Carl Bajema.

Abstract This is the general archival collection for newspapers from the greater Grand Rapids and Kent County areas, along with a few Michigan newspapers. The two major Grand Rapids, Michigan newspapers of the 20th century are the Grand Rapids Press, which continues today, and the Grand Rapids Herald, which ceased in 1959. Holdings of earlier Grand Rapids newspapers, beginning in the 1840s, are also available, although there are many missing issues. Additional newspaper holdings include neighborhood...

Abstract The Grand Rapids Public Library underground newspapers collection is a devised collection which documents a genre of newspapers held in the Grand Rapids Public Library Archives. These Michigan underground newspapers share a time period in history from 1969 to 1973, during a time of civil unrest in the United States. In most cases only sample items are available, while for the title “Root”, several issues are included, though it is believed that this is not a complete run of the title. These...