 Bud Billiken Club

The Bud Billiken Club was a social club for African–American youth in Chicago, Illinois, established in 1923, by the "Chicago Defender" founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott and its editor, Lucius Harper.The Bud Billiken Club was formed as part of the "Defender Junior", the children's page in the newspaper, to encourage reading, appropriate social conduct, and involvement in the community, among the young people of Chicago.