Chicago Defender Newspaper Headquarters
DESCRIPTION: Always at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, many sleeping car porters circulated the newspaper widely in the South during Jim Crow, which attracted thousands of migrants to Chicago; John HH Sengstacke (1912-1998), nephew to Abbott, took the newspaper’s mission to the next level; Sengstacke influenced President Franklin D Roosevelt to name the first Black correspondent in White House and hire Blacks in the U.S. Postal Service; President Harry S Truman asked him to serve on the Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces which resulted in the desegregation of the military; in the 1940s, Sam Lacy, Paul Robeson and Sengstacke influenced major league baseball and Branch Rickey to hire Jackie Robinson on the Brooklyn Dodgers; in 1956 Sengstacke converted it from a weekly to a daily newspaper

DAYS & HOURS: Mon-Fri 9a-5p

ADDRESS: 2400 South Michigan Ave  MAP

PHONE: 312-225-2400

WEBSITE: http://www.chicagodefender.com

Bronzeville Black Chamber of Commerce
ADDRESS: 3911 South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive  MAP

PHONE: 773-373-8081
WEBSITE: http://www.illinoisbcc.org