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4 unusual facts about Chicago Defender


Jackie Ormes

Ormes moved to Chicago in 1942, and soon began writing occasional articles and, briefly, a social column for the Chicago Defender, one of the nation's leading black newspapers, a weekly at that time.

Longview Race Riot

The most influential African American literature to circulate in Longview was The Chicago Defender, a weekly newspaper with nationwide coverage and circulation.

Real Times

Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in 1905, billing it the "World's Greatest Weekly".

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 five other regional weeklies in the eastern and Midwestern United States.



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