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Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
[6] [11] [7] Regina Anderson was one of ten African-American women whose contributions were recognized at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The Women's Service League awarded Anderson a medal for being the first woman of color to serve as the head of a New York library branch. [6]
Chicago Renaissance may refer to: Chicago Black Renaissance, 1930–1940s creative movement from the Chicago Black Belt; Chicago Renaissance, multiple periods of ...
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon, a World Athletics Label Road Race.She ran 2:18:35, with split times of 31:59 at 10 km, 48:15 at 15 km, 1:08:22 at the half marathon mark, and 1:37:42 at 30 km. Chepng'etich's performance was a course record, the best performance ever on Turkish soil, and, at the time, was the seventh fastest time in history.
She edited a two-volume encyclopedia, Black Women in America, first published in 1993. Her book A Shining Thread of Hope was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. [13] She co-edited with John McCluskey Jr The Black Chicago Renaissance (2012). [14] Hines' papers are preserved in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke ...
Chicago has a Percent for Art program of public artworks, although it is notoriously more opaque and secretive than that of most other cities; arts activist such as Paul Klein and attorney Scott Hodes have long criticized its lack of public accountability. [123] Chicago is home to a number of large, outdoor works by well-known artists.
The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series; 1908 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the second year in a row; Binga Bank in business. [36] 1909: Burnham's Plan of Chicago presented. [20] 1910: Population: 2,185,283. [1] [37] July 1: Comiskey Park opened (originally called White Sox Park). December 22: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910)