January 21, 1911
On the history of the Chicago Defender, see Ethan Michaeli’s The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016), James Grossman's Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1989), and Adam Green’s Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955 (2006).
You can view the The Life and Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1907) here and below: