The ''Chicago Whip'' (sometimes referred to as simply ''The Whip'') was an

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in Chicago from 1919 until 1939.

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In 1919, William C. Linton became the founding editor and publisher of the paper. Linton unexpectedly fell ill and died in March 1922, after which Joseph Dandridge Bibb (who previously served as a co-editor for the paper) took over. The paper's "Don't Spend Money Where You Can't Work" campaign advocated for the boycott of white-run businesses with racially discriminatory hiring practices, and the campaign led to over 15,000 Chicago blacks securing jobs. The newspaper was ''The Chicago Defender's'' contemporary and rival. Within a year of its launch, ''The Whip'' had a circulation of 65,000. 185,000 copies of The Defender were in circulation at the time. ''The Whip'' survived until 1939.

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