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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.
A second "Chicago Renaissance," this time lasting approximately 1935 to 1950 and referring to a wave of creativity from Chicago's African American writers. Bone suggests that this Chicago Renaissance was comparable in influence and importance to the earlier Harlem Renaissance. Bone's list of Chicago Renaissance writers includes fiction writers ...
The South Side Writers Group was a circle of African-American writers and poets formed in the 1930s in South Side, Chicago.The informal group included Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, Fenton Johnson, Theodore Ward, Garfield Gordon, Frank Marshall Davis, Julius Weil, Dorothy Sutton, Marian Minus, Russell Marshall, Robert Davis, Marion Perkins, Arthur Bland, Fern Gayden, and ...
A prolific writer, Ward composed more than thirty plays and co-founded the Negro Playwrights Company with Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Richard Wright. [3] His best known works are the drama Big White Fog (1938), produced by the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago as well the musical Our Lan' (1947) which premiered on ...
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.
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
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. United States writer, political and labor movement activist Frank Marshall Davis Born (1905-12-31) December 31, 1905 Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S. Died July 26, 1987 (1987-07-26) (aged 81) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. Pen name Frank Boganey Occupation Journalist, poet Genre Social realism ...
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.