| 1. |  | Richard Wright, 1940, as he completed Native Son | Authors; Men; Minorities; | Chicago lawyer Leon Despres inscribed the back of this photograph when he sent it to Horace Cayton, co-author of Black Metropolis, in 1969. Cayton was then at work on a biography of his friend, Richard... |
| 2. |  | John H. Sengstacke, 1940's | Presidents; Newspapers; Organizations; Men; Business people; Minorities; | Sengstacke served as President of the Chicago Defender until his death in 1997. In 1940, Sengstacke was the driving force behind the founding of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association, known today... |
