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Front page of The Robbins Eagle, Robbins, Ill., March 3, 1951

Migration and after

The Robbins Eagle

Robbins, Ill. · March 3, 1951

Robbins, Illinois was incorporated in 1917 and governed entirely by Black residents — the first town in Cook County where Black families could own the land they stood on. In 1931 it built the first Black-owned airfield in the country. This is the second issue its newspaper ever printed, covering a village board vote, and it calls itself the world's littlest newspaper.

Published
Robbins, Ill.
Run
1951–1963
This issue
March 3, 1951
Catalog no.
sn2008060212

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This paper covered them

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People on the Record whose citation was taken out of The Robbins Eagle. The two collections are matched on the Library of Congress catalog number, not on the paper’s name — a name is not an identifier, and matching on one put the New-York Tribune in this archive the first time it was tried.

Patrice Lumumba1925–1961

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