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Andrew and Seth discuss the story of Robert Abbott, the son of slaves who would use 25 cents to start a newspaper that helped inspire millions of African Americans to flee the Jim Crow South for a better life in the North
Sources:
https://aaregistry.org/story/robert-abbott-founder-of-the-chicago-defender/
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/#robert-abbott
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/abbott-robert-sengstacke-1870-1940/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/chicago-defender-1905/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-exemplary-legacy-of-the-chicago-defender - An interview with a former managing editor of the Chicago Defender
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/1/3078/files/2012/06/Veronica-Hauad1.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/chicago-defender/422583/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/03/01/94798069.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://archive.org/stream/negroinchicagost00chic#page/n23/mode/2up - Link to the book "The Negro In Chicago" in its entirety. The book arose out of the commission that studied the causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which I clumsily summarized in the episode. To clarify, the riot killed 38 people, 23 of whom were black
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/defender.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27defenders.html
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/pullman-porters - More info on the Pullman Porters
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration - An overview of the Great Migration
https://chicagodefender.com/ - Website of The Chicago Defender
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Andrew and Seth discuss the story of Robert Abbott, the son of slaves who would use 25 cents to start a newspaper that helped inspire millions of African Americans to flee the Jim Crow South for a better life in the North
Sources:
https://aaregistry.org/story/robert-abbott-founder-of-the-chicago-defender/
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/#robert-abbott
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/abbott-robert-sengstacke-1870-1940/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/chicago-defender-1905/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-exemplary-legacy-of-the-chicago-defender - An interview with a former managing editor of the Chicago Defender
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/1/3078/files/2012/06/Veronica-Hauad1.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/chicago-defender/422583/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/03/01/94798069.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://archive.org/stream/negroinchicagost00chic#page/n23/mode/2up - Link to the book "The Negro In Chicago" in its entirety. The book arose out of the commission that studied the causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which I clumsily summarized in the episode. To clarify, the riot killed 38 people, 23 of whom were black
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/defender.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27defenders.html
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/pullman-porters - More info on the Pullman Porters
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration - An overview of the Great Migration
https://chicagodefender.com/ - Website of The Chicago Defender