THE NEWS IN WHITE AND BLACK
<p><strong>CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 1916</strong> — 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.”</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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