Economic impact
Founded the Chicago Defender in 1905. The paper became a widely circulated Black weekly newspaper in the United States and encouraged the Great Migration by publishing accounts of jobs and housing in Northern cities.
Xcelerator · Person
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Founder, the Chicago Defender
Media & Publishing
Signal
- Region
- Chicago
- Industry
- Media & Publishing
- Source file
- profiles/chicago_profiles.md:448
- Status
- published