Person · 1870–1940
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
The publisher whose Chicago Defender helped spark the Great Migration.
A titan of [[black-business]] and the Black press.
Robert Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in 1905 and built it into the most influential Black newspaper in the country, campaigning against lynching and urging Southern Black readers to come north — fueling the Great Migration.
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Abbott's Defender urged Black Southerners north, helping spark the Great Migration away from sharecropping and terror.