3416 | Robert SENGSTACKE ABBOTT
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, 1868 Savannah, Georgia?, 1904 USA?, [I7353], N: publisher, He adopted the name Sengstacke Abbott and eventually “became famous as the man who founded ‘The Defender’ as a weekly in Chicago, Illinois and made it such an influential voice throughout black America that he was credited with stimulating the mass immigration to Chicago from the South (1915-1919)�. In all, approximately 1.3 million flocked to northern cities. A noted African-American publisher, he passed away in 1904. CONT In 1908, the Georgia Historical Society and the City of Savannah erected a home marker in Chatham County in his memory. |
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