Robert Sengstacke Abbott: A Man, a Paper, and a Parade is the
biography of Robert Abbott, who founded The Chicago Defender, one of
the first influential newspapers for African Americans, in 1905. Through
the medium of this publication, Robert Abbott was able to uplift and
inspire generations of African Americans and to encourage them to fight
for equality during a time when many were deprived of basic freedoms and
were under the thumb of Jim Crow Laws. Inspired by the descriptions in
The Chicago Defender and other newspapers of life in the northern
United States, many African Americans journeyed north and found ways to
escape the unjust laws that had oppressed them in the southern states.
This is the first title in the newly launched Change Maker Series from
Bellwood Press. Books in this series are aimed at middle grade readers
and tell the stories of dynamic individuals who made a difference by
dedicating their lives to bringing about social change.