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    Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender...
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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...
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  • metallurgist Robert Abbott (bishop) (1869–1927), Bishop of Sherborne Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), African-American lawyer and publisher Robert Abbott (fl...
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  • had 200 members. A nephew of newspaper founder, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Sengstacke was Abbott's designated heir to take over the Chicago Defender, which...
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  • photojournalist Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), American lawyer, newspaper publisher, and editor This page lists people with the surname Sengstacke. If an...
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  • publication in its new form. The Chicago Defender's editor and founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott played a major role in influencing the Great Migration of African...
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  • to take over the assets of Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., the longtime owner of five of the papers. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender...
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    of St. Helena Island, South Carolina, part of the Sea Islands. Robert Sengstacke Abbott Cornelia Walker Bailey Jim Brown Kardea Brown Kwame Brown Marion...
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    Washington, D.C. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940) and John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), publishers of the Chicago Defender;...
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    car, which was built by the Pullman Company in 1922. The desk of Robert Sengstacke Abbott, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper...
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    launched their own publications and publishing houses, such as Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper, and Carter G. Woodson...
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  • journalism". Sengstacke succeeded in realizing a dream that his uncle, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, had for many years. Fittingly, Abbott died on the morning...
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    politics and business affairs. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), publisher of the Chicago Defender; John Mitchell Jr...
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  • Chaka Khan and Billie Holiday. Truman rode alongside John H. Sengstacke, who was Abbott's nephew and took over the Chicago Defender in 1948, and Mayor...
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  • Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto. Robert Sengstacke Abbott - lawyer and newspaper publisher, one of the first self-made African...
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  • politics and business affairs. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), publisher of the Chicago Defender; John Mitchell Jr...
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    musicians, as well as notables in literature, sports, and history. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper publisher Albert Ammons (1907–1949), jazz/boogie-woogie...
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    Instruction (CALI) and Oyez Project are headquartered at Chicago-Kent Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1898, founder of the Chicago Defender Pablo Almaguer, former Chair...
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    the religion - Alain LeRoy Locke, James Ferdinand Morton Jr., Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Helen Elsie Austin, and Nancy Douglas Bowditch. Additionally,...
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    playing a major role in politics and business affairs, including Robert Sengstacke Abbott ( 1870–1940), publisher of the Chicago Defender; John Mitchell...
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    Louis George Gregory. Another Baháʼí with links to Germany was Robert Sengstacke Abbott whose adoptive father was German and, through his family connection...
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    646 votes for Barack Obama and cast 81 votes for Mitt Romney. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), founder of The Chicago Defender. He lived in Grand...
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    dedication stone of the Baháʼí House of Worship near Chicago. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, an African American lawyer and newspaper publisher, met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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  • Illinois, established in 1923, by the Chicago Defender founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott and its editor, Lucius Harper. The Bud Billiken Club was formed...
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    during her teens and learned her Olympic sport of golf in Illinois. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868–1940), African-American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor...
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    Juli Jones. The Defender had recently been established in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott. By the First World War, it became the nation's "most influential...
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  • closely related to that profession, are generally not listed here. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, lawyer, newspaper publisher, editor Raymond Pace Alexander, lawyer...
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    Bullock alongside Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Alain LeRoy Locke, Glenford Mitchell, Louis Gregory, Helen Elsie Austin, Dizzy Gillespie, Robert Hayden, and others...
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  • Music. 24 (4): 445–509. doi:10.2307/25046051. JSTOR 25046051. "Robert Sengstacke Abbott". Michaeli, Ethan (January 12, 2016). The Defender: How the Legendary...
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  • in 1925 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of The Chicago Defender, the highest-circulation black-owned newspaper in the country. Abbott had recruited...
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