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Bud Billiken was a fictious person created by author, Willard Motley, who one wrote a column for the Chicago Defender.

Bud Billiken is the Guardian Angel of Black children, created to encourage Black children to go to school by Willard Motley.

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Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is an annual parade in Chicago, Illinois, and the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States. However, there never was a Bud Billiken. He was a mythical guardian of children invented by Robert Abbott who organized the first parade in 1929.

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