Chicago Defender (Historical)
What is it? The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919 and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military. This newspaper also supported the aviation career of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot, and promoted the writing of Langston Hughes, a poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, and Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois.
Why use it? Search content from the Chicago Defender from 1940 - current
Coverage: 1910 - 2010
Access: Available on networked computers on the MSU campus in Bozeman and via the proxy server. Unlimited number of simultaneous users.
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: History, News
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- History
- News
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- Related Databases:
- American West
- North American Indian Thought and Culture
- Smithsonian Collections Online
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) Archive
- European Views of the Americas
Total interactions: 2398
Rank: 187 out of 337 databases
Rating: 3 out of 5 (based on 2398 out of 2326883 total interactions with all of our databases)
Last updated: 2026-02-05 21:21:09
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