THE NEWS IN WHITE AND BLACK

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 1916 — On a frigid and windblown day, a small item appeared in a Chicago newspaper. Several hundred black families had quietly left Selma, Alabama, heading north. Their treatment in the South, one refugee told the paper, “doesn’t warrant staying.”

The 1910s marked the peak of American newspapers. More than a thousand nationwide, several in each major city, printed news in black and white. Yet no other newspaper tracked this all-black story, just the Chicago Defender.

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