Robert sengstacke abbott biography template
Robert sengstacke abbott biography template
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott
African American publisher and lawyer (1870–1940)
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940)[4] was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor.
Abbott founded The Chicago Defender in 1905, which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in the country.
Abbott founded the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic in August 1929. The parade, which has developed into a celebration for youth, education and African–American life in Chicago, Illinois, is the second largest parade in the United States.[5]
Biography
Early life and education
Abbot was born on December 24, 1870, in St.
Simons, Georgia (although some sources state Savannah, Georgia[6]) to freedman parents, who had been enslaved before the American Civil War. The Sea Islands were a place of the Gullah people, an African-descended ethnic group who maintained African-inherited cultural traits more strongly than many