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A selection of published stories, which can serve as a good starting place for further research.
Movers and shakers, scalawags and suffragettes : tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery by 
Celia, a Slave by 
The Lynching of Cleo Wright by 
History of St. Louis Gangsters by 
Vice Squad by 
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowAs of January 2021 only one newspaper (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) is available in searchable full-text online:
Contains full text of the newspaper St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1874-2003 including its title variants. Learn more about this database.
As of January 2021, only select issues of St. Louis African American / Black focused newspapers are available in digital format. As an alternative, online access and full-text search is available for the noted and long-running African American newspaper, Chicago Defender, which often covered national news as well as Midwest / St. Louis news:
Historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with first-hand accounts and coverage of Chicago's politics, society and events of the time.
Publications focused on and published by the LGBTQ+ / Queer communities began in 1970. None of these are keyword searchable, but some selections have been digitized:
