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Chicago Defender Newsboy, 1942

 

 

 

Chicago Defender Newsboy, 1942

Newsboys were a common sights on Chicago's streets as Chicago's newspapers competed with each other for headlines and readers. Here, a newsboy sells the Chicago Defender near the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Building at 3501 South Parkway (later Martin Luther King Drive), March 1942.