John Herman Henry Sengstacke (November 25, 1912 – May 28, 1997) was an American newspaper publisher and owner of the largest chain of African-American...
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender...
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The Chicago Defender (section Sengstacke era)
the southern United States. Under his nephew and chosen successor, John H. Sengstacke, the paper dealt with racial segregation in the United States, especially...
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Sengstacke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), American newspaper publisher Robert A. Sengstacke (1943–2017)...
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Real Times (redirect from Sengstacke Enterprises)
enjoyed substantial circulation across the nation. Abbott's nephew John H. Sengstacke, who became publisher in 1940, was a founder of the National Negro...
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throughout this country. — John H. Sengstacke He re-opened it in 1967 under the new name. The New Pittsburgh Courier joined Sengstacke's three other newspapers...
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Sengstacke was the product of the Sengstacke family newspaper business legacy in Chicago. He was the son of John H. Sengstacke and Myrtle Sengstacke....
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Best Alternative Newspaper". The Defender was founded in 1951 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender. In 2013, the paper was locally purchased...
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black newspapers in the United States. It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender. He re-opened...
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leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940) and John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), publishers of the Chicago Defender; John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929)...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. John H. Sengstacke James Wechsler Walter White Wilson W. Wyatt In April 1948 at New York...
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Paul Robeson, Chaka Khan and Billie Holiday. Truman rode alongside John H. Sengstacke, who was Abbott's nephew and took over the Chicago Defender in 1948...
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the dinner service, with attendees including Etta Moten Barnett and John H. Sengstacke. Elizabeth told the diners that "Ever since we landed this morning...
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African-American newspaper based in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in 1936 by John H. Sengstacke, editor of the Chicago Defender. Together with the Defender and a...
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Midwest. It holds the papers of many notable Chicagoans, such as John H. Sengstacke, Robert S. Abbott, Doris E. Saunders, Timuel Black, Rev. Addie L....
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List of people from Georgia (U.S. state) (section H)
co-host of Live with Kelly and Ryan since 2017 Saycon Sengbloh, singer John H. Sengstacke, newspaper publisher Ken Shamrock, mixed martial artist Shannon Sharpe...
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its official seal. From 1960 to 1970, noted diplomat and educator Jerome H. Holland was president of the Hampton Institute. The university and its leadership...
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headquarters was in Louisville, Kentucky. The NNPA was founded in 1940 when John H. Sengstacke, the second publisher of the Chicago Defender, organized a meeting...
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the paper. He remained executive editor until 1965, retiring after John H. Sengstacke purchased the ailing paper. On February 29, 1980, Prattis died at...
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1944 Major League Baseball season (category Articles with hCards)
three black journalists, Ira F. Lewis of the Pittsburgh Courier, John H. Sengstacke of The Chicago Defender, and Howard Murphy of the Baltimore Afro-American...
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the National Newspaper Publishers Association, formed in 1940 by John H. Sengstacke, to support newspapers serving Black communities. Also that year,...
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Claude Albert Barnett (category Articles with hCards)
Cunard. Barnett retired from the ANP 1966. When Barnett died in 1967, John H. Sengstacke of the Chicago Defender is quoted as saying that Barnett "was more...
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Nak-woon, 71, South Korean football forward. John H. Sengstacke, 84, American newspaper publisher, stroke. John Stack, 73, American X-ray engineer, rower...
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in Midtown Detroit. Chicago Defender and Michigan Chronicle owner John H. Sengstacke died in 1997. Amid the uncertainty over the Chronicle's future ownership...
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Brothers Dwight R. G. Palmer, president of the General Cable Corporation John H. Sengstacke, publisher of The Chicago Defender William E. Stevenson, president...
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in 1931 until he left in 1951 to start the Tri-State Defender with John H. Sengstacke. During this period Swingler also taught journalism at LeMoyne College...
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Hazel Garland (category Articles with hCards)
financial troubles, in 1966 the Pittsburgh Courier was bought out by John H. Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Defender, and renamed the New Pittsburgh...
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T. Thomas Fortune Marcus Garvey Ethel Payne John B. Russwurm John Sengstacke Ida B. Wells-Barnett John H. Johnson Robert C. Maynard Chuck Stone Charles...
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Ethel L. Payne (category Articles with hCards)
front-page stories. In 1951, Payne moved back to Chicago to work full-time for Sengstacke Newspapers, the publisher of The Chicago Defender. She worked as an Associate...
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launched their own publications and publishing houses, such as Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper, and Carter G. Woodson...
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