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From Savannah, Georgia, he also founded the Negro Newspaper Publisher Association in 1940. The organization is now known as the National Newspaper Publishers Association. In 1956, took Chicago Defender from a weekly to a daily publication. The newspaper was founded in 1905 by Sengstacke's uncle, Robert S. Abbott and had a strong voice in Chicago's African-American communities and has a circulation of about 25,000 at that time. The paper's Bud Billiken parade, which marches through the South Side each August, has grown to become one of the nation's largest African-American community celebrations He also owned the Courier newspapers of Pittsburgh and Miami and the Chronicle of Detroit. John Sengstacke died May 28, 1997, Chicago, Illinois Reference: Black Heroes of The Twentieth Century Edited by Jessie Carney Smith Copyright 1998 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI ISBN 1-57859-021-3
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