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Chicago Defender Archives Individuals Files

Founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, the Chicago Defender is one of America's longest-running African American newspapers. The Defender is best known for having spurred the Great Migration of African Americans from the southern United States to the nation's urban centers in the north—especially Chicago—during the first decades of the 20th century. The Defender also paved the way for

Dates: 1928-2007   |   Extent: 72.0 Linear feet
Archives: Chicago Defender

Claude A. Barnett collection of visual materials

Primarily photoprints of Afro-Americans collected during Barnett's career as founder and director of the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919-1964), some images photographed by Gordon Parks. Includes Black events and significant personalities in diverse fields supplied to the ANP for distribution to Black newspapers, 1920s-1960s; his topical interests (higher education, agriculture, entrepreneurship, entertainment, medicine, politics, civil rights, sports, armed forces, and

Dates: 1890-1969,   |   Extent: 1879 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.; 5 albums (containing 500 photographic prints) ; 8 x 10 in.; ca. 75 photomechanical prints : b&w ; 47 x 32 cm (23 1/2 x 16 in.) or smaller.; 14 photomechanical prints : broadside, few col. ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.; 7 photomechanical prints : envelope, col. ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.; 14 negatives : cellulose nitrate ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.; 5 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.; 4 negatives : col. ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.; 1 folder of non-graphic material.; 17 broadsides ; large format.
Archives: Chicago History Museum