Chicago Defender radio and television pages

CTL-E-1333 · Archive · collection · 1947–1975

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The Defender's broadcast listings, columns, and sponsored programs — a primary source for what Black Chicago could hear/watch and when. (Defender institutional history is sibling project CTL-DR-BPM-003; this entry covers only the broadcast pages as lived-media evidence.)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-071; source research type(s): source_collection.

Sources

Ryan Ellett via otrr.org PDF (adapted from McFarland, 2011)
(negative finding — this workstream)

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