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...
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game), a remake Defender, a 1982 pinball table based on the 1981 video game. The Chicago Defender, a Chicago-based online newspaper Defender, a 2001 novel...
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The Chicago Defender Building, located at 3435 S. Indiana Avenue in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of the Douglas community area of Chicago...
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Moorish Science Temple of America (redirect from Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America)
August 29, 2009. Nance (2002), p. 635–637 Chicago Defender, January 1929. Chicago Tribune Gale. Chicago Defender, July 27, 1929. Perkins, p. 186, as well...
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Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census...
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reported as seven or ten. An article in The Chicago Defender described her as the highest-paid child artist in the world. While touring Europe, she delighted...
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott (category Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni)
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...
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Noble Drew Ali (category Religious leaders from Chicago)
Cult, Dies Suddenly". Chicago Defender. July 27, 1929. p. 1 – via ProQuest. McCloud, p. 18; Wilson, p. 35. The Chicago Defender, whose news articles had...
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The mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of city government in Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States. The mayor is responsible...
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using a Knee Defender and the passenger seated in front of him who wanted to recline. Ultimately the pilot diverted the flight to Chicago and both of those...
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Robert A. Sengstacke (category People from Chicago)
Defender from 1974 until 1989. Shortly after, Sengstacke became President of the Sengstacke Newspaper and the Chicago Defender. The Chicago Defender was...
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The Bud Billiken Club was a social club for African–American youth in Chicago, Illinois, established in 1923, by the Chicago Defender founder Robert Sengstacke...
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founder of The Chicago Defender. He lived in Grand Boulevard from 1926 until his death in 1940. Noble Drew Ali (1886–1929), founder of the Moorish Science...
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Sarah Rector (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
July 22, 1967, at the age of 65. She is interred in Blackjack Cemetery in her childhood hometown of Taft. Honorary whites Chicago Defender November 4, 1922...
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a friend at the Chicago Defender that Grizzard was a racist. After the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the editorial employees...
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take over the Chicago Defender, which he did after his uncle's death in 1940. Sengstacke also published the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit; the Tri-State...
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Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic (category Festivals in Chicago)
picnic and festival. Robert S. Abbott, the founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender newspaper, created the fictional character of Bud Billiken, which...
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Windy City (nickname) (redirect from Windy City, Origin of Name (Chicago))
recorded Chicago citation is in the Chicago Defender, October 20, 1936: "And these cold mornings are on us – in other words 'Hawkins' has got us." In the 1967...
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joke regarding being late, and may have first been used in 1914 by The Chicago Defender newspaper. There are differences between monochronic societies and...
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civil rights causes and was called "one of the foremost citizens Chicago has ever had" by the Chicago Defender. Ferdinand Lee Barnett was born in Nashville...
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(one of them was possibly Miles Pruitt). The record was advertised in The Chicago Defender on the same date as the record's release. As a turn of phrase...
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The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago...
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during the civil rights movement. He covered the Emmett Till murder for the African-American-oriented Chicago Defender chain, while serving as the editor...
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pertaining to African-Americans in golf until the 1940s. He was married to the Chicago Defender journalist and the reportedly, first African-American woman...
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Dandridge Sisters (redirect from The Dandridge Sisters)
Talented," The Chicago Defender, December 2, 1939, p. 20. "Recordings", The Chicago Defender, December 14, 1940, p. 21. "They're a Hit on the Coast", The Chicago...
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(life of W. A. Hunton Jr.) "Eunice Carter To Be Abroad Seven Weeks". The Chicago Defender. March 14, 1956, p. 14 Gray, Madison (January 12, 2007). "Eunice...
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Emmett Till (category 1955 murders in the United States)
Till's mutilated corpse circulated around the country, notably appearing in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender, both black publications, generating intense...
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Real Times (category Newspaper companies of the United States)
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...
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Tammy (August 31, 2020). "Nancy Green, the Original face of Aunt Jemima, Receives a Headstone". The Chicago Defender. Retrieved 2020-11-09. Johnson, Erick...
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are headquartered at Chicago-Kent Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1898, founder of the Chicago Defender Pablo Almaguer, former Chair of the State Bar of Texas...
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