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November 25

John Sengstacke
*John Sengstacke was born on this date in 1912. He was an African-American publisher of Chicago's Black newspaper, the Chicago Defender.

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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