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Survial of the Eldest

With the Recent Passings of "Double Duty", "Goulash", Lester Lockett, etc., here are those greats who rank among the "youngest," from the former Negro League Legends.

HISTORICAL PICS

On these pages are images from both, "Back in the Day" and today, as things stand now. Many of the people featured were very instrumental in the development of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Of the Color photos taken throughout the Chicagoland area, these show what remains today.

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Click Here to see Where your Favorite former Negro League Baseball Legends and your Former Barnstorming Baseball Legends will next Appear

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Negro League Legends.org Post Office Box A3738 Chicago, Illinois 60690-3738

Publisher of the Chicago Defender Newspaper


After his uncle founded of the Chicago Defender Newspaper 27-year-old John H. H. Sengstacke became the second publisher-owner of the highly regarded Chicago Defender, one of the nation's most widely read Black-owned newspapers. Sengstacke inherited the paper in 1940 upon the death of his uncle, Defender founder Robert S. Abbott, who had earlier handpicked Sengstacke for the job. Sengstacke worked with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create jobs in the U.S. Postal Service for African Americans and persuaded FDR to include an African-American reporter in among the White House press core. On another front, Sengstacke founded the National Newspaper Publishers Association where he served seven terms as the group's president. In 1956, Sengstacke transformed his weekly paper into a daily, making it the nation's largest Black-owned daily. That same year he purchased the Pittsburgh Courier through Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., his newspaper chain that also owned the Tri-State Defender in Memphis and the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit. Sengstacke was born in Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 25, 1912, and graduated from Hampton Institute in Virginia. Mr. Sengstacke died on May 28, 1997. He was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously by President Bill Clinton in 2000. John Sengstacke's granddaughter, Myiti Sengstacke, went on to publish the Defender until it was sold to outside interests in 2005. The paper's Bud Billiken parade, which marches through the South Side of Chicago each August, has grown to become one of the nation's largest African-American community celebrations which continues to this day.


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