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Portrait of Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 - 1940), publisher and founder of the Chicago Defender, which came to be known as 'America's Black Newspaper', early twentieth century. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Portrait of Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 - 1940), publisher and founder of the Chicago Defender, which came to be known as 'America's Black Newspaper', early twentieth century. (Photo by The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)