Robert Abbott of the Chicago Defender played a major journalistic role in the "great migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South.
Margaret Sanger, publisher/journalist/founder of Planned Parenthood, is proof that heroes, including heroes of indy media, are often flawed. This article from Women's E-News discusses her flirtation with eugenics-oriented arguments in support of birth control in the early 1920s.
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