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Robert S. Abbott

1868 – 1940

Georgia and Chicago, United States

St. Simons Island-born publisher who launched the Chicago Defender in 1905; within about a decade it was the nation's leading Black newspaper and a powerful promoter of the Great Migration north.

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Edna Brown Denison Abbott, widow of Chicago Defender founder Robert S. Abbott, photographed in Chicago, April 1941
Credit: Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (FSA/OWI, U.S. government work).

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Sources

  1. New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940)" (Scholarly)
  2. National Park Service, Fort Frederica National Monument, "Robert Abbott" (Primary source)

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