More digital content: Palmetto Leader newspaper

In 2008 I wrote a post about the Palmetto Leader, Columbia’s African American newspaper. At the time we were just starting to index the published obituaries.  Not only is that project completed but we have also indexed all the marriages and births in the Palmetto Leader.

Just as we completed that project the University of South Carolina digitized the entire run of the newspaper.  Our index, however, is still a valuable tool.  It will identify if a marriage, birth or death record exists.  With the exact citation, a researcher can then go to the digital content and find the record without viewing multiple articles.

We are excited that the Palmetto Leader is digitized and searchable because of the valuable historic information it published about Columbia’s black community.  Let the discovery begin!