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  2. Chicago Black Renaissance - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...

  4. Margaret Walker - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Chicago Mayor Launches Black Reparations Task Force - AOL

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    The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and ...

  6. Archibald Motley - Wikipedia

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    Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...

  7. Chicago Renaissance - Wikipedia

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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

  8. Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding ...

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    CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests.

  9. Police Abuse Complaints By Black Chicagoans Dismissed Nearly ...

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    Sources: Invisible Institute, City of Chicago, Census Bureau, CNN. Of 10,500 complaints filed by black people between 2011 and 2015, just 166 — or 1.6 percent — were sustained or led to discipline after an internal investigation. Overall, the authority sustained just 2.6 percent of all 29,000 complaints.