Chicago Defender
Chicago Defender
Chicago Defender
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024. |
| Description: | Chicago Defender provides more than six decades of this newspaper’s historic coverage, online and easily searchable. 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. |
| Coverage: | 1910-1975. |