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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".

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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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