Hartford: CONNECTICUT
A group of Connecticut newspapers detailing African-American life in the Northeast during World War II now has a more modern readership. The weeklies were recently added to the Chronicling America Project, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a national digital database of historically significant U.S. newspapers. Besides chronicling the lives of African-Americans in the state capital and region, the newspapers pushed for social, economic and political change, such as the hiring of black city firefighters and bus drivers.