Chicago Defender (Images of America)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Robert Sengstacke Abbott had a vision, purpose, and a slogan that said it all: “American race prejudice must be destroyed.” In 1905, Abbott created the Chicago Defender with 25¢ and a dream in his landlady’s kitchen. The Defender was a platform and voice for talents such as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W.E.B. DuBois. What began as a humble weekly grew into the largest and most influential black newspaper in the country, leading an entire race to leave the oppressive South for a better life in the North. Born in 1868 on the heels of the Reconstruction Era, Ab...
ISBN(s)
073856124X, 9780738561240
