Source:Chicago Crusader (Chicago, Illinois)

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Source The Chicago Crusader
Coverage
Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Year range 1940 -
Subject Newspaper article, Obituaries
Publication information
Type Newspaper
Place issued Chicago, Illinois
Citation
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. The Chicago Crusader. (Chicago, Illinois).

The Chicago Crusader, known from 1940 to the 1950s as The Crusader and from the 1950s to 1981 as The New Crusader, is a weekly African-American newspaper serving Chicago. Founded by Balm L. Leavell and Joseph H. Jefferson in 1940 and published by Balm Leavell until his death in 1968, The Chicago Crusader has subsequently been operated by his widow Dorothy Leavell. It is Chicago's longest-running African-American weekly.

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