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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.

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott devoted his life to giving voice to the struggles of Black people in the early twentieth century.

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