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Certificate of Award this certificates that the Chicago [[image: line dog Sphinx]] Defender [[image: banner reading WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY]] FOUNDED BY ROBERT S ABBOTT MAY 5, 1905 has placed GENERAL BENJAMIN O. DAVIS Jr. on its 1954 Honor Roll of Democracy for Symbolizing the best in American Democracy May 5th, 1955 [[signature]] John H. Sengstacke [[/signature]] JOHN H. SENGSTACKE, Publisher and Editor