Robert Sengstacke Abbott (November 28 Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, – February 29, ) [4] was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender in , which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in the country.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. Robert Sengstacke Robert Sengstacke Abbott (–) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who founded the Chicago Defender, the most influential Black American newspaper during the early and midth century.
Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born From the outset, Abbott employed yellow journalistic tactics-sensational headlines and dramatic news accounts of African American communities. The paper’s tone was militant. Writers referred to African Americans, not as "black" or "negro" but as "the race.".
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December From errand boy to lawyer to publisher, as founder of one of the most read Black newspapers in the United States, Robert Sengstacke Abbott gave voice to a Black point of view that had been rendered mute in the early twentieth century.
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Robert S. Abbott was born in in Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia of former slave parents, and studied the printing trade at Hampton Institute from to Founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Georgia native Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded, edited, and published the Chicago Defender, for decades the country’s dominant African American newspaper. Through the pages of the Defender, Abbott exercised enormous influence on the rise of the Black community in Chicago, Illinois, and on national African American culture.
Title: Robert Sengstacke Abbott. Author: Born on December 24, to formerly enslaved parents in St. Simons, Georgia, Robert Sengstacke Abbott attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and then went on to graduate from Kent Law School (now Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois) in In May he started publishing the Chicago Defender.
It examines Robert S. Robert was born in He was the son of John Sengstacke and Myrtle passed away in "I prefer to view myself as an accomplished artist with a camera, rather than as an accomplished photographer,” Robert Abbott “Bobby” Sengstacke once told an interviewer.