Chicago Defender unprocessed records
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Chicago Defender unprocessed records
- Identifier
- BMRC.DEFENDER.UNPROCESSED
- Repository
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Chicago Defender
Chicago Defender200 S. Michigan AvenueChicago, IL 60604
- Language
- English
- Size
- 546.0 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1932-2004
- Creator
- Chicago Defender
Acknowledgements and Access
This collection was part of the BMRC Survey Initiative, 2009-2011.
Access to the collection is unknown. For current information about the collection and its status, please contact the Chicago Defender at: copyright@chicagodefender.com
Historical note
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 the modernization of the Black press, given its capital resources; advanced printing technologies; national and international distribution networks; and multi-cultural, transnational readership.
Scope and Contents note
The unprocessed records of the Chicago Defender consist of a broad range of materials, most of which fall into one of the following general categories:
- Incomplete paper and microfilm runs of the Chicago Defender newspaper;
- Institutional records from the 1980s and 1990s pertaining primarily to Chicago Defender Charities's sponsorship of the annual Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic;
- Subject/photograph files pertaining to Chicago churches and religious leaders;
- Press kits from the 1980 and 1990s received by Arts and Entertainment editor Earl Calloway;
- Additions to the Photographic Individual Files and Organizations Files dating from the 1990 to the 2000s
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 November 8 by Lisa Calahan Andrew Steadham.