1823–1893
Biography · Journalism
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
1868–1940
United States
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Biography
Abbott built the Chicago Defender into the nation’s most influential Black newspaper, using it to campaign against lynching and to help spur the Great Migration north.
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1915–1964
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