Bud Billiken is a fictional character created in 1923 by Robert - TopicsExpress



          

Bud Billiken is a fictional character created in 1923 by Robert Abbott, who had been pondering the possibility of adding a youth section to the Chicago Defender newspaper. While dining at a Chinese restaurant he noticed a Billiken. Some of the early Billiken columns were written by Willard Motley, who would later become a prominent African-American novelist. During the early 1930s, names of international youth appeared in the Bud Billiken section of the newspaper every week. The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is an annual parade in Chicago, Illinois, and the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:44:45 +0000

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