Founder and publisher of The Chicago Defender newspaper and the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic
Spouses
Helen Thornton Morrison
(m. 1918; div. 1933)
Edna Brown Denison
(m. 1934)
Relatives
John H. Sengstacke (nephew)[2][3] Robert A. Sengstacke (great–nephew)
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]
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^Rutkoff, Peter M.; Scott, William B (2004). "Pinkster in Chicago: Bud Billiken and The Mayor of Bronzeville, 19030-1945". The Journal of African American History. 89 (4): 15. doi:10.2307/4134057. JSTOR 4134057. S2CID 144348141 – via JSTOR.
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