Chicago Whip

William C. Linton started the Chicago Whip in June 1919, just weeks before the Red Summer violence swept the city. Joseph D. Bibb, a Yale- and Harvard-trained lawyer, soon joined as co-editor and took over after Linton's death in 1922. The Whip mixed sensational crime stories with columns on health, law, and entertainment, building a circulation that rivaled the Chicago Defender within the city. It is best known for launching the 1929 "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" boycott campaign targeting white-owned businesses that refused to hire Black workers. Digitized pages provided by Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, a project of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library.