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Chicago Defender

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The Chicago Defender's Impact on the Great Migration

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Civil Rights Activist Timuel Black Remember The Chicago Defender After Its Last Printing

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Founder of Chicago Defender Robert Abbott Born on This Day

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Robert Abbott & The Chicago Defender: Black newspaper and its publisher | Black History Facts #28

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Chicago Defender goes digital

The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers. Historically, The Defender is considered the "most important" paper of what was then known as the colored or Negro press. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow era violence and urged blacks in the American South to come north in what became the Great Migration. Under his nephew and chosen successor, John H. Sengstacke, the paper took on segregation, especially in the U.S. military, during World War II.
  • Foundation and social impact, role in the Great Migration 

  • Sengstacke era 

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