2400 S. Michigan Ave. (Defender plant)

CTL-E-1165 · Address · site · 1960–2003

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Defender headquarters and printing plant (1960-2003)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BPM-003; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BPM-003:bld-2400mich; source research type(s): building.

Sources

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Record CTL-E-1165 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: BPM-003.
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Ida B. Wells — portrait from ‘Women of Distinction’ (1893)Photo: Public Domain (from ‘Women of Distinction,’ 1893), via Wikimedia Commons

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Press room of the Richmond Planet newspaper, 1899Photo: Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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