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Chicago Renaissance may refer to: Chicago Black Renaissance , 1930–1940s creative movement from the Chicago Black Belt Chicago Renaissance, multiple periods of innovation in Chicago literature in the early 20th century
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.
Frank London Brown was born to Myrtle and Frank Brown on October 17, 1927, in Kansas City, Missouri.In 1939, seeking better opportunities and refuge from racial prejudice, the Brown family relocated to the impoverished neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago.
The first issue of Chicago-based Poetry magazine appeared in 1912. While Chicago produced much realist and naturalist fiction, [9] its literary institutions also played a crucial role in promoting international modernism. The avant-garde Little Review (founded 1914 by Margaret Anderson) began in Chicago, though it later moved elsewhere.
Fenton Johnson (May 7, 1888 – September 17, 1958) was an American poet, essayist, author of short stories, editor, and educator.Johnson came from a middle-class African-American family in Chicago, where he spent most of his career.
Stanisław Szukalski (13 December 1893 – 19 May 1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. [1] Szukalski's art appears to show influences from ancient cultures, Egypt, Slavs, and Aztecs combined with elements of art nouveau and other currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism.
Bert Leston Taylor (c. 1920)Bert Leston Taylor (November 13, 1866 – March 19, 1921) was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author. [1]Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty-one, and a successfully published author at thirty-five.
Chicago Bee Building, 3647 S. State Street, Chicago The Chicago Bee or Chicago Sunday Bee was a Chicago -based weekly newspaper founded by Anthony Overton , an African American , in 1925. Its readership was primarily African American and the paper was committed to covering "wholesome and authentic news", [ 1 ] and adopted a middle-class ...