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The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. Abb
Coverage of the National Negro Congress in the Defender, February 22, 1936
Coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Defender, September 23, 1950
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban North
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…newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow-era violence and urged black people in the American South to settle in the north in what became the Great Migration. Abbott worked out an informal distribution system with Pullman porters who surreptitiously (and sometimes against southern state laws and mores) took…
The Arthur family arrived at Chicago's Polk Street Depot on August 30, 1920, during the Great Migration.
African-American youths play basketball in Chicago's Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project in 1973.
The Hub is the retail heart of the South Bronx, New York City.
White tenants seeking to prevent Black people from moving into the Sojourner Truth Project in Detroit erected this sign, 1942