Jet magazine is a popular African-American publication founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company. Jet is notable for its small digest-sized format. Influential in the early days of the American Civil Rights movement, with its coverage of the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery bus boycott, today Jet is part of Johnson Publishing's Ebony publishing empire. African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or blacks, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West Africa. ... To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... John H. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. ... John H. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. ... The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ... Emmett Louis Bobo Till (July 25, 1941–August 28, 1955) was an African-American youth native to Chicago, Illinois whose brutal lynching in Mississippi was one of the key events leading up to the American Civil Rights Movement. ... The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political protest campaign in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the citys policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. ... Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. ...

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• http://www.jetmag.com