[2] When it was established in 1940, The Crusader occupied a single page and was operated out of an apartment in the Ida B.
The newspaper later moved to its current location on King Drive in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.
When the Nation of Islam established Muhammad Speaks, it hired Dan Burley, who had formerly worked for The Crusader as well as the Chicago Defender, to edit it.
[7] In 1960, the newspaper extended a formal invitation to the imprisoned Kenyan independence leader Jomo Kenyatta to speak in Chicago.
[10] Dorothy Leavell has served in prominent roles in many African-American publishing organizations and was inducted into the National Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2016.