Chicago Defender Quiz

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  1. True or False: The Black Press has been an advocacy press.
  2. True or False: Themes in the early Black Press were limited to political progress and civil rights.
  3. True or False: The Chicago Defender epitomized what the Black Press stood for: owned by blacks, it was a voice for blacks in the north and south -- and an advocacy press for social progression and for the black community as a whole.
  4. Who founded the Chicago Defender?
  5. Which of the following beats was not a part of the Chicago Defender?
  6. True or False: The Defender is in large part responsible for The Great Migration movement.
  7. The Defender was the only publication to cover Emmitt Till.
  8. The Defender was at one time the largest black owned daily newspaper in the world
  9. What was the famous statement made in The Defender?
  10. The Defender never used the words "negro" or "black" in reference to people.

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