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Publication Date

4-1968

Description

Publisher

Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker

Address

1223 N.E. Alberta

Note

In January 1962, Jimmy “Bang-Bang” Walker took an investment of $15,000 and founded, edited, and published the Northwest Defender. Five years later, in August 1967, Walker took over the Northwest Clarion, which had suspended publication, and renamed his newspaper the Clarion Defender, also referred to as the Northwest Clarion Defender and the New Northwest Clarion Defender.

Dates of Publication

1966 – 1973

Publisher

Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker

Address

1223 N.E. Alberta

Frequency

Weekly

Motto

“Oldest Negro Publisher in the Northwest”

Notes of Interest

April 68: photo of Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker interviewing Coretta Scott King from her Portland visit, Freedom Concert 1965

Publication Location

Portland, Oregon

Original Format

print newspaper, 17 1/2" x 23"

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20484

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Clarion Defender-April 1968

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