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Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the fantastic Migration, and concentrated the electoral power of dark America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled thousands of copies into the most isolated neighborhoods in the segregated South, and was dubbed a "Modern Moses", becoming one of the first black millionaires along the way. His successor wielded the newspaper's clout to choose mayors and presidents, including Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, who would have lost in 1960 if not for the Defender's support. Along the way, its webpages were filled up with columns by legends like Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, and Martin Luther Ruler Jr. Drawing on dozens of interviews and considerable archival research, Ethan Michaeli constructs a revelatory narrative of contest in the us from the age of Teddy Roosevelt to the age of Barack Obama, and brings alive the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemen's clubs to do their careers.
