The editor and publisher of the largest Negro-owned daily newspaper in the United States was the first recipient today of the mass media human relations award presented by the Chicago chapter of the American Jewish Committee, He is John H. Sengstacke, of the Chicago Defender, who received the award yesterday from Jerome M. Comar, chairman of the AJC chapter. Mr. Sengstacke and his newspaper were cited for “pointing the way through media to a greater understanding among men.”
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