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The Defender
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America | Ethan Michaeli
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An extraordinary historyDeeply researched, elegantly writtena towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten. Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post Amazon Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a "Modern Moses," becoming one of the first black millionaires in the process. His successor wielded the newspapers clout to elect mayors and presidents, including Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, who would have lost in 1960 if not for TheDefenders support. Along the way, its pages were filled with columns by legends like Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, and Martin Luther King. Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive archival research, Ethan Michaeli constructs a revelatory narrative of race in America and brings to life the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemens clubs to do their jobs, from the age of Teddy Roosevelt to the age of Barack Obama.
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Chasing_Pages
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I took the #16personalitiestest and I am not surprised by my results at all. After reading them I‘m surprised at how accurate everything was right down to my career as a nurse. Pretty neat test.

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I did not realize that municipalities also follow the two party model that the state and federal elections in the US. I'm learning a lot from this book.

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Written with obvious affection by a longtime staffer, another entry into the should-have-known-that-about-Black-History-but-didn't. Toggles between chronicling the history of the paper itself, developments in local society and politics, and milestones on the national stage. At times tedious, the book still manages to cover the epic sweep of the 20th century US for African Americans, as seen through the lens of the premier black newspaper.