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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.
Developed during Springfield's industrial growth of the 1850s to the 1920s, the South Fountain Avenue Historic District encompasses about 15 square blocks south of downtown Springfield, across the street from South High School. Among its prominent early residents were Oliver S. Kelly, [1] William N. Whiteley, and Francis Bookwalter. [2]
Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Tallahassee: Florida: 1976 [152] Spady Cultural Heritage Museum: Delray Beach: Florida: 2001 [153] Spelman College Museum of Fine Art: Atlanta: Georgia: 1996 [154] Springfield and Central Illinois African-American History Museum: Springfield: Illinois: 2012 [155] Stiles African ...
Springfield Museum of Art: Springfield Clark Southwest Art [236] Spring Hill: Massillon Stark Northeast Historic house 1820s rural home once a stop on the Underground Railroad [237] Squire Rich Museum: Brecksville: Cuyahoga Northeast Local history Operated by the Brecksville Historical Association, 1840s house [238] Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens ...
Location of Clark County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for ...
A unique new exhibit at the Route History museum in Springfield, Illinois, draws visitors into the lives of Black men who left a legacy along Route 66.
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.
Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture history; Black Belt in the American South; Business history; Military history; Treatment of the enslaved; Migrations; Great Migration; Second Great Migration; New Great Migration