Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s1600-h/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s200/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" width="264" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into slavery inward the US, but died when his boy was however a baby. In 1869, Robert's mother, Flora Abbott, married John Sengstacke from a wealthy High German merchant immigrant family. Robert retained his belatedly father's get upwards in addition to took his pace father's get upwards every bit his middle name.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> From 1892 to 1896, Robert studied the printing merchandise at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). By 1898, Robert earned a constabulary grade from Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He skillful constabulary inward Gary, Indiana, Topeka, Kansas, in addition to Chicago, Illinois. Ultimately, he decided that he could amend battle the arrangement of white supremacy racial injustice through the majority media instead of the courtroom. Robert pose downwards his constabulary books in addition to picked upwards his printing press. He would study the challenges in addition to successes of African Americans, tidings that was of import to their lives.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>THE CHICAGO DEFENDER NEWSPAPER</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> With reportedly every bit niggling every bit 25 cents capital, Robert began the most widely-circulated Black paper inward the United States. The Chicago Defender paper became the medium to vocalism the concerns of African Americans inward Chicago. The paper made many outstanding contributions to journalism in addition to ultimately to Black history. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s400/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Chicago Defender headline.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Established inward Nov 29, 1905, the Chicago Defender would operate the longest running African American paper publication inward Chicago. The telephone substitution of data from North to South -- through both the Chicago Defender in addition to correspondence betwixt relatives -- accelerated the Great Migration of African Americans to Chicago, resulting inward an growth of 150% inward the population of Black Chicago betwixt 1910-1920.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s1600/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s320/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">City officials inward Arkansas town seek ban on Chicago Defender newspaper.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The Great Migration of African Americans from U.S. southern states to Chicago was inward utilisation fueled yesteryear the Chicago Defender's vocalism against injustice in addition to grand accounts of northern living at the attack of the U.S. industrial revolution. Originally housed inward a converted synagogue from 1920 to 1960, the Chicago Defender quickly developed into both the country's premier root for tidings of the northern migration of African Americans.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s1600/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s400/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicago Defender typesetters reach community tidings for majority distribution.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Black Pullman Porters, who were prosperous in addition to good respected inward the African American communities, became the Defender's national "delivery  men," distributing the newspapers to many southern towns. The paper became an of import communication tool betwixt Black Chicagoans in addition to their relatives inward the southern states. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> "My friends made fun of me," Robert is reported to convey said most the tremendous opposition to his establishing the Chicago Defender. "They idea it was foolish of me to anticipate success inward a plain inward which then many men earlier me had failed...but I went on fighting the opposition of my adversaries in addition to the indifferences of my friends. I emerged victorious but battle-scarred."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s1600-h/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s320/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The historic dwelling trouble solid of Robert S. Abbott</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(4742 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1929, Robert established the Bud Billiken Club and with David Kellum established Chicago's Bud <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=black-chicago-commemorates-85th-annual" target="_blank">Billiken Parade in addition to Picnic</a>. He resided inward Chicago until his decease from Bright's Disease inward 1940. His home, established every bit a National Historical Landmark inward 1976, was located at 4742 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago. He left the Chicago Defender paper to his nephew John Henry Sengstacke. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s400/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" width="350" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After to a greater extent than than 100 years of Black publishing history, Chicago Defender's 2007 number headlines local politics.</span></span><br /> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott  (b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940) Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simon...

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John H. Johnson: The Johnson Publishing Fellowship Of Chicago

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUVYLxOz1NOZK93ar4LF2Xh9fZN7Hby7Ge635uyjCSQceUpIz3yHzzY4JZxvliR-LVT15wQ9Q_WWvspTfaBUXlVt8QJJF4wioMTUfnUnTJLzcbCS9Ln13KEKoLRnphxvgBLld4vTqUCU/s1600-h/John_H__Johnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUVYLxOz1NOZK93ar4LF2Xh9fZN7Hby7Ge635uyjCSQceUpIz3yHzzY4JZxvliR-LVT15wQ9Q_WWvspTfaBUXlVt8QJJF4wioMTUfnUnTJLzcbCS9Ln13KEKoLRnphxvgBLld4vTqUCU/s200/John_H__Johnson.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo: John Harold Johnson </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. Jan. 19, 1918 – d. Aug. 8, 2005)</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i>The Johnson Publishing Company, started past times Johnson H. Johnson, is amid the largest Black-owned businesses inwards the United States.</i> <br /> <br /> <b>THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN H. JOHNSON</b><br /> <br /> John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing, was born inwards Arkansas City, Arkansas in 1918. In 1933, he in addition to his woman bring upwardly migrated to Chicago seeking a meliorate instruction for the immature John Johnson. After graduating from DuSable High School, Johnson worked for Henry H. Pace, in addition to therefore president of Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company. <br /> <br /> Johnson was eventually given the trouble to detect tidings items virtually Blacks in addition to compile them amongst tidings of Supreme Life employee activities for an in-house publication. Johnson developed the sentiment of collecting articles into a monthly periodical to last called <i>Negro Digest</i>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT4Z3avitK2WLxCksoLRuHFtXZVB1oAn_FKK4mMlPV0xzZdxMaG6ZxRT93qLPapVqoO0GwPVERlBsRgpUxLXTobJJ0vuPltk-EeZtCcOrVn7v0qyiw_L539FVCaA01YSEuqKa7GDVkA/s1600-h/johnson+negro+digest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT4Z3avitK2WLxCksoLRuHFtXZVB1oAn_FKK4mMlPV0xzZdxMaG6ZxRT93qLPapVqoO0GwPVERlBsRgpUxLXTobJJ0vuPltk-EeZtCcOrVn7v0qyiw_L539FVCaA01YSEuqKa7GDVkA/s320/johnson+negro+digest.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> In 1942, Johnson used his mother's novel slice of furniture every bit collateral for a $500 loan to shipping 20,000 letters to Supreme Life insurance policy-holders offering a $2 charter subscription to the <i>Negro Digest</i>. The overwhelming reply marked the outset of the Black media dynasty. Other publications launched past times Johnson was <i>Tan</i> magazine, a truthful confessions means publication, too every bit <i>Ebony Man</i>, <i>Ebony Jr.,</i> in addition to <i>African American Stars.</i><br /> <br /> <b>EBONY AND JET MAGAZINES</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7k6WEQD7YDKHAH_YZOUOpgFwYMJUCIjc0Lh5HsxI3smOncdd0UyeQi7D8GgAUnyG4K3r9Xe5uHxRwtxRjjfmDQbD69e9sIQgc4e1BMHoHbSd3HZbThzA-IcZLL2jALND6uGHayiWxE/s1600-h/johnson+ebony+jet+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7k6WEQD7YDKHAH_YZOUOpgFwYMJUCIjc0Lh5HsxI3smOncdd0UyeQi7D8GgAUnyG4K3r9Xe5uHxRwtxRjjfmDQbD69e9sIQgc4e1BMHoHbSd3HZbThzA-IcZLL2jALND6uGHayiWxE/s320/johnson+ebony+jet+magazine.jpg" /></a></div> <i>Ebony</i> in addition to <i>Jet</i> magazines accept been published from Chicago since 1945 in addition to 1951, respectively. In its 40th twelvemonth of publication, <i>Ebony</i> periodical had reached a circulation of 2,300,000. After which, Johnson began making the listing of the richest individuals inwards the United States. In 1996, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom was bestowed on Johnson past times President Bill Clinton. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvV6_SZJXR6GNg_S_wtSn9u1w2VTSimuOtayRx50l4T0Yz8hTM5KTMGKyHS2bfqwqdPxJ2AkuEpd5L83OodK08cWuLH9yWV_kiXmLjB_0JJTP6OeOBHuLWsJVSDa9JHTcBDHBSM-s2qYk/s1600-h/johnson+fashion_fair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvV6_SZJXR6GNg_S_wtSn9u1w2VTSimuOtayRx50l4T0Yz8hTM5KTMGKyHS2bfqwqdPxJ2AkuEpd5L83OodK08cWuLH9yWV_kiXmLjB_0JJTP6OeOBHuLWsJVSDa9JHTcBDHBSM-s2qYk/s320/johnson+fashion_fair.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> The company's subsidiaries include Fashion Fair Cosmetics in addition to the Ebony Fashion Fair Show. <br /> <br /> Johnson Publishing Company celebrated its 60th anniversary inwards 2002. The publishing fellowship is headquartered inwards a costless standing edifice inwards the South Loop of Chicago at 820 S. Michigan Avenue.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i-ch7QxBIzRPR8-FjAM-dWPdRjZhI1EKwFdK8cyhnSxPFQZmaP5HADGqLlakASqpPfhDYGbXk_77w5dfx1AGfpU7xWuQ-2p48tY7TBh1B3_RHn5zBprUS8q-sJatK_qmsYW7KhgeH_Q/s1600-h/johnson+publishing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i-ch7QxBIzRPR8-FjAM-dWPdRjZhI1EKwFdK8cyhnSxPFQZmaP5HADGqLlakASqpPfhDYGbXk_77w5dfx1AGfpU7xWuQ-2p48tY7TBh1B3_RHn5zBprUS8q-sJatK_qmsYW7KhgeH_Q/s320/johnson+publishing.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo</b>: <b>Entryway to Johnson Publishing Company edifice inwards Chicago</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <i><br /> </i></div> </div>

John H. Johnson: The Johnson Publishing Fellowship Of Chicago

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Anthony Overton: A Dark Manufacturer, Banker, Lawyer In Addition To Publisher

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" width="229" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Anthony Overton (b. March 21, 1865 - d. July 2, 1946)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i>On March 21, 1865, Anthony Overton was born into slavery in Monroe, Louisiana. It was non until Dec 18, 1865 that slavery legally ended inwards the United States. Overton became a pioneering manufacturer, banker, lawyer together with businessman. Much of his employment organisation operations arose amid the African American community inwards Chicago.</i> <br /> <br /> <b>ANTHONY OVERTON</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The boy of Anthony together with Martha (Deberry) Overton, Anthony Overton was educated at Washburn College together with would equally good graduate from the University of Kansas where he earned a Bachelor of Laws. He graduated from the University of Kansas constabulary school. He skilful constabulary for a fourth dimension together with fifty-fifty served equally a gauge earlier concentrating on developing his employment organisation operations.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In 1898, Overton established the Hygienic Manufacturing Company inwards Kansas City. In 1911, he moved operations to Chicago where he manufactured baking powder, privy preparations, together with other extract products. He soon launched the High-Brown Products label where he produced a full-line of ladies fine cosmetics together with perfumes inwards Chicago. </div>   <br /> <b>OVERTON HYGIENIC BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s1600-h/hygienic+building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s320/hygienic+building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Overton Building (photograph from Commission on </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago Historical together with Architectural Landmarks)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s1600-h/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s320/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Overton Hygienic Building inwards Chicago Today</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Anthony Overton developed a major employment organisation conglomerate inwards Chicago that began its operations from this Overton Hygienic Building. In 1922, Overton commissioned architect Z. Erol Smith to blueprint together with build the Overton Hygienic Building. In add-on to hygienic assist products, Overton would run the <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper franchise, Victory Life Insurance Company, Douglass National Bank, together with Northern Realty Company from this employment organisation facility together with his minute building, The Chicago Bee Building. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Overton Hygienic Building was later known inwards history equally the Palace Hotel. The edifice is immediately owned yesteryear the Mid-South Planning together with Development Commission, which announced plans to role the edifice equally an incubator for small-scale businesses inside the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District neighborhood. The Overton Hygienic Building is a Chicago Landmark together with constituent of the historic Bronzeville District inwards the Douglas community surface area of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 3619-3627 State Street.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <br /> <b>THE CHICAGO BEE BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s1600-h/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s320/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Chicago Bee Building</span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s1600-h/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s320/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Bee Building, immediately known equally The Bee Branch Library</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1926, The <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper publishing employment organisation was founded equally ane of Chicago's <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=robert-s-abbott-and-growth-of-black">African American newspapers</a>. Overton affirmed his confidence inwards the viability of the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville Chicago yesteryear commissioning architect Z. Erol Smith ane time again to blueprint a novel three-story edifice to operate his novel paper publishing employment organisation inwards a separate facility equally his query together with development, together with manufacturing operations. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Chicago Bee Building features a richly ornamented facade executed alone inwards terra cotta. It was ane of the some picturesque of the historic buildings inwards Bronzeville -- at the fourth dimension the only ane designed inwards the Art Deco mode of the belatedly 1920s.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s1600-h/chicago+bee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s320/chicago+bee.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Librarian Jo Willis poses in forepart of the Art Deco doors of the Chicago Bee Building</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Although structure started at the starting fourth dimension of the Great Depression, the edifice was gear upward for occupancy yesteryear 1931. In add-on to the <i>Chicago Bee</i> newspaper, the edifice would identify the offices of the Overton Hygienic Company after the Douglass National Bank unopen inwards 1932. The paper unopen inwards the early on 1940s. The Anthony Overton Elementary School on Chicago's South Side was afterwards named inwards honor of this bang-up African-American businessman. </div> </div>

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