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The Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender
is a
Chicago
-based
weekly newspaper
founded in 1905 by
Robert S. Abbott
for primarily
African-American
readers. Historically,
The Defender
is considered the "most important" paper in what was then known as the colored or negro press. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against
Jim Crow
era
violence
and urged blacks in the
American South
to come north in what became the
Great Migration
. Under his successor,
John H. Sengstacke
, the paper took on
segregation
, especially in the U.S. military, during
World War II
.
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