Chicago Whip

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Chicago Whip
"Don't buy where you can't work"
Type Weekly newspaper
Founder(s) William C. Linton
Publisher The Whip Publishing Company
Associate editor Joseph Dandridge Bibb
Founded June 24, 1919; 105 years ago (1919-06-24)
Ceased publication 1939
City Chicago
Country United States
Circulation 65,000 (as of 1920)
ISSN 2694-099X
OCLC number 15192974

The Chicago Whip (sometimes referred to as simply The Whip) was an African American newspaper in Chicago from 1919 until 1939.[1]

History

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