The story
This newspaper triggered the Great Migration by urging Southern Black readers to come North, reaching 230,000 readers by 1919.
Everything that was here
- 1920–1960
Chicago Defender BuildingNewspaper Office
This newspaper triggered the Great Migration by urging Southern Black readers to come North, reaching 230,000 readers by 1919.
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