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Photo of Richard Pierce by Franchella Holland. Used with permission.
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The Chicago Defender: This headline from May 20, 1916, provides shocking details about a spectacle lynching, which merited the week's main headline. In the public domain.
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The Chicago Defender: African American baseball team from the 1916 season. In the public domain.
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The Chicago defender: This article, "Still Leaving South" (Sept. 9, 1916), reports how the leaders of Montgomery, Alabama, passed a law making it a misdemeanor to even ask someone to "leave to work to any other town or city." In the public domain.
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The Chicago Defender: African American baseball team from the 1916 season. In the public domain.
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The Chicago Defender: This cartoon (Aug. 19, 1916), called "The Awakening," showed how after fifty years of continuing oppression following emancipation, blacks in the South were finally liberating themselves from white landlords and creditors by immigrating to northern cities, where jobs and education awaited them. In the public domain.
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The Chicago Defender, founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, was one of most widely read and influential newspapers in the African American community in the early twentieth century. In the public domain.
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The Chicago Defender: This cartoon (Nov. 4, 1916) encourages blacks to "remember this scene". In the public domain.
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Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Facades, from the Harlem Document. Image courtesy of the Aaron Siskind Foundation and the Snite Museum of Art. Used with permission.
Copyright 2012, Aaron Siskind Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License
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