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Bud Billiken Club (Chicago Defender youth section)

CTL-E-1277 · Institution · other · 1923–1939

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Defender's youth club/section built around the Bud Billiken character; between 1930 and 1934 approximately 10,000 children's names appeared in the section and were archived at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-007; source research type(s): institution.

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