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020			_z9780547560878 (ebook)
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100	1		_aMichaeli, Ethan.
245	1	4	_aThe defender : _bhow the legendary black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama / _cEthan Michaeli.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, _c2016.
300			_axx, 633 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a""The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here 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 newspaper's clout to elect mayors and presidents, including Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, who would have lost in 1960 if not for The Defender's 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 policemen's clubs to do their jobs, from the age of Teddy Roosevelt to the age of Barack Obama"-- _cProvided by publisher.
630	0	0	_aChicago defender _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zIllinois _zChicago _vNewspapers.
650		0	_aAfrican American newspapers _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican American press _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global). _2bisacsh
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