Reference & Research

The Black Panther was the official newspaper for the Black Panther Party. It was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1967 and ran through 1980 printing 537 issues.

Spanish language reference site for K-8 students.
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Britannica School provides age-appropriate English language encyclopedias for elementary, middle, and high school students.
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Articles and indexing of college-level periodicals (1980 - present).

Many kinds of media sources for middle school and older students.

Search all Gale publications and source materials at once.

GuideStar is the most comprehensive source of nonprofit information
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Source has a large online catalog of newspapers from California. Issues of the Oakland Tribune between 1874 and 1977 are in this collection.

Oakland and East Bay articles from local newspapers and magazines.

Ebooks and encyclopedia for grades K-12.