The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by an African American for primarily African American readers.
In just three years from 1919–1922 the Defender also attracted the writing talents of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
The Role of the Defender in Influencing the Great Migration (African American)
Editor and founder of the magazine, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, played a major role in influencing the Great Migr...
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The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by an African American for primarily African American readers.
In just three years from 1919–1922 the Defender also attracted the writing talents of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
The Role of the Defender in Influencing the Great Migration (African American)
Editor and founder of the magazine, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, played a major role in influencing the Great Migration (African American) of African Americans by means of strong, moralistic rhetoric in his editorials and political cartoons, the promotion of Chicago as a destination, and the advertisement of successful black individuals as inspiration for blacks in the South.
The rhetoric and art exhibited in the Defender unmistakably demanded equality of the races and the promotion of a northern migration. It has been suggested that the first step Abbott took to achieve this end was to create a necessary sense of oppression and discontentment in southern...
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