Black Urbanists, Part 4: Media
Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder, publisher and editor of the Chicago Defender. As America's largest circulation and most widely-distributed black-owned newspaper, Abbott passionately and regularly called for blacks to leave the stultifying racism of the Jim Crow South to seek opportunity in the North's industrial cities. Source: wikipedia.org
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