Robert sengstacke abbott biography
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Abbott, Robert Sengstacke 1868–1940
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Learned His Trade
Chicago Defender Appeared
Defender Grew
Defender Survived the Depression
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded one of the major black newspapers in the United States, the Chicago Defender. Helped by a massive migration to the North inspired by his own newspaper, he made a fortune.
Robert sengstacke abbott biography
Although his central contribution was his newspaper, his exceptionally well-documented life throws light on many aspects of black life in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Through both the news and the editorial columns of the Chicago Defender, Abbott must be counted one of the major black spokesmen of his time.
Robert Abbott was born on November 24, 1868, in Frederica, on St.
Simon’s Island, Georgia, to Thomas and Flora Butler Abbott. Thomas Abbott, a man of unmixed African heritage, had been the butler on the Charles Stevens plantation. When the Stevenses fled to the mainland in the