American Decades
Letters to the Chicago Defender
Letters
By: Chicago Defender
Date: 1916–1918
Source: Chicago Defender. "Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916–1918." Journal of Negro History 4, no. 3, 1919, 291, 293. "Additional Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916–1918." Journal of Negro History 4, no. 4, 1919, 412–413, 418, 420, 442–443, 457–460. Available online at http://azimuth.harcourtcollege.com/history/ayers/chapter22/... ; website home page: http://www.azimuth.harcourtcollege.com (accessed April 9, 2003).
About the Publication: The Chicago Defender, founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, was a conduit for African American social change through much of its history. By World War I, the weekly paper was the most widely read source of...
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