How A Newspaper Moved Americans
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The Chicago Defender has humble beginnings. Started by Robert Sengstacke Abbott in the rooms of a boardinghouse, the paper quickly grew into a nationally-distributed enterprise. (Abbott himself became one of the first black self-made millionaires.) Ethan Michaeli, author of \\u201cThe Defender: The Legendary Black Newspaper Change d America,\\u201d traces the paper\\u2019s influence through history, from the Great Migration to the desegregation of the military.
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