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Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940)

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Davis, Pablo J

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Encyclopedia article about Georgia native Robert Sengstacke Abbott who founded, edited, and published the Chicago Defender, for decades the country's dominant African American newspaper. Through the pages of the Defender, Abbott exercised enormous influence on the rise of the black community in Chicago, Illinois, and on national African American culture.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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