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  2. The Chicago Defender - Wikipedia

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    Chicago, Illinois, United States. ISSN. 0745-7014. Website. www.chicagodefender.com. The Chicago Defender is a Chicago -based online African-American newspaper. It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. [1] Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow -era ...

  3. Robert Sengstacke Abbott - Wikipedia

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    Robert Sengstacke Abbott. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) [4] was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender in 1905, which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in the country. Abbott founded the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic in August ...

  4. John H. Sengstacke - Wikipedia

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    John Herman Henry Sengstacke (November 25, 1912 – May 28, 1997) was an American newspaper publisher and owner of the largest chain of African-American oriented newspapers in the United States. Sengstacke was also a civil rights activist and worked for a strong black press, founding the National Newspaper Publishers Association in 1940, to ...

  5. Robert A. Sengstacke - Wikipedia

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    Robert Abbott Sengstacke (May 29, 1943 – March 7, 2017), also known as Bobby Sengstacke, was an African-American photojournalist during the Civil Rights Movement for the Chicago Defender in Chicago, Illinois. Sengstacke was well known for his famous portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent civil rights leaders.

  6. Real Times - Wikipedia

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    RealTimesMedia.com. Real Times Media LLC is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the largest and most influential African American weekly newspaper, as well as five other regional weeklies in the eastern and Midwestern United States. Its headquarters are in Midtown Detroit. The company was founded in January 2003 by a consortium of ...

  7. Chicago Defender Building - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Defender Building. The Chicago Defender Building, located at 3435 S. Indiana Avenue in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District [1] of the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois, housed the Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960. [2] Designed by Henry L. Newhouse, it was originally a synagogue.

  8. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...

  9. L. Alex Wilson - Wikipedia

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    L. Alex Wilson in Chicago Defender office c. 1960. L. Alex Wilson (March 30, 1909–October 11, 1960) was an American journalist and editor who rose to prominence during the civil rights movement. He covered the Emmett Till murder for the African-American-oriented Chicago Defender chain, while serving as the editor of the Memphis-based Tri ...