The defender how the legendary Black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama
""The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black A...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2016
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Delphi on the prairie
- A defender of his race
- If you see it in "The Defender," it's so
- Getting the South told
- The Great Northern Drive
- The greatest disturbing element
- The bond of affections
- Reaping the whirlwind
- Bombing Binga
- Chicago vindicated
- The burdens of the future
- We'll take the sea
- Farewell, Chief
- Victory through unity
- Santa Claus and a World War
- Promises vs. performance
- The "Daily Defender"
- One vote per precinct
- A socratic gadfly
- A prayer for Chicago
- A dark hour in the life of America
- The last remains of nonviolence
- Victories are contagious
- Stick around for a while
- The roar of the El train