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Robert S. Abbott

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Photograph of the attendees of a meeting of black leaders in Washington, D.C. in 1918. Approximately fifty African American men stand on stairs at the front of a building. Robert S. Abbott, a Georgia native, was a prominent journalist who founded the Chicago Defender in 1905. He is pictured (second row, fifth from right) in June 1918 at a meeting of black leaders in Washington, D.C. Prominent historian and educator W. E. B. Du Bois stands in the first row, fourth from the right.
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Keywords

  1. African American Authors
  2. African American Civic Leaders
  3. African American Educators
  4. African American Historians
  5. African American Journalists
  6. African American Men
  7. African Americans
  8. Authors, American
  9. Black Newspapers
  10. Buildings
  11. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  12. Chicago
  13. Civic Leaders
  14. Educators
  15. Historians
  16. Illinois
  17. Journalists
  18. Men
  19. Newspapers
  20. Stairs
  21. Washington (D.C.)

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