| Type: | Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Chicago Defender has been a leading voice of the black community well beyond the Windy City, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African-Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military. |
| Publisher: | ProQuest Information and Learning Company |
| Publisher URL: | http://www.il.proquest.com/ |
| Creator: | Chicago Defender |
| Category/Subcategory: | general / General |