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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.
The literary creation of Black Chicago residents from 1925 to 1950 was also prolific, and the city's Black Renaissance rivaled that of the Harlem Renaissance. Prominent writers included Richard Wright (author of Native Son ), Willard Motley , William Attaway , Frank Marshall Davis , St. Clair Drake , Horace R. Cayton, Jr. , and Margaret Walker .
Alice Crolley Franklin worked briefly as a social worker, but for more than forty years (1930-1973), she taught at Forrestville Elementary School in Chicago, while pursuing literary interests. [ 4 ] From 1944 to 1946, Browning published a literary magazine, Negro Story , co-edited with her friend Fern Gayden . [ 5 ]
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 ...
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.
For nearly 90 years, an unfinished and unpublished novel from the famous Black Renaissance writer waited quietly in the archives.
The best short stories by Negro writers. An anthology from 1899 to the present. 1st ed. Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1967. Wayne Charles Miller (ed.): A gathering of ghetto writers: Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Puerto Rican. New York University Press, New York 1972, ISBN 9780814753583. John Henrik Clarke (ed.): Black American short ...
During her tenure, she befriend visual artists, writers, and activists critical in the WPA and the Chicago Black Renaissance. Woodson's expansive network included playwright Theodore Ward and novelist Richard Wright , two early contributors to the burgeoning arts movement in the city. [ 6 ]