Chicago Defender 
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
3/2/2020
Experience 1930s Europe Through the Words of Two African American Women
by Ethelene Whitmire
In the pages of the “Chicago Defender,” the cousins detailed their adventures traversing the continent while also observing signs of the changing tides.
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SOURCE: NY Times
7/9/19
The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy
For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”
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