PSA: File this under "it's about freaking--" oh, wait.

Back issues of the Chicago Defender, "famed black newspaper," are being donated to the Chicago Public Library (South Side branch, appropriately) by the heir to the paper's founding family, Robert Sengstacke (now 66). The collection contains pictures never published elsewhere and a part of black (and American) history going back to the early twentieth century.

According to the NYTimes,

"The Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert Abbott, who quit a fledging law practice after being told he was “too black to win a case.” The newspaper became a leading national voice for African-Americans, a showcase for black intellectuals and an unapologetic advocate for civil rights."

It's still running as a weekly with a circulation of around 10,000.