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Flora Butler Abbot Sengstacke: From Slavery to the Chicago Defender

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Flora Butler Abbott Sengstacke, 1921

When: Wed., Jan. 22, 5:30 p.m. 2020

Flora Butler Abbott Sengstacke (1874-1932) lived enslaved as a child and adolescent in Savannah. Despite the hardships of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, she guided her eldest son, Robert Abbott, and lived to see his success as founder and editor of the Chicago Defender, the most influential African American newspaper of the time. Martha Keber is the speaker.

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Event Contact Email lspracher@savannahga.gov

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