The 93rd Bud Billiken Parade steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.
, president of Governors State University;, founder and CEO of Matthew House;What are the parade’s origins?
Newspaper founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott, at right, stands outside The Chicago Defender's original building in Chicago, circa 1910s. Abbott championed the"Great Northern Drive" through his newspaper.In 1924, Abbott held a picnic for five of his publication’s newsboys. The first parade was held Aug. 11, 1929, when Abbott wanted to thank the children who hawked his newspaper on street corners. He could think of no better way than to give them the things they loved: ice cream, hot dogs and a day outdoors.In 1921, Abbott started Defender Junior, a page of his weekly paper devoted to children. It grew to include a club, drawing children across the U.S. and Africa and serving as an alternative to the Boy Scouts in response to the segregation at the time.
Both Mayors Daley; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Barack Obama, as both a U.S. senator and president; President Harry Truman; and Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington.James Brown, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Chaka Khan, Spike Lee, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Oprah Winfrey and Chance the Rapper.Sources: Chicago Defender Charities; Tribune archives and photos
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