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The writing of the Chicago Black Renaissance addressed the culture of Chicago, racial tensions, issues of identity, and a search for meaning. [2] Prominent writers in the movement included Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, Fenton Johnson, Lorraine Hansberry, and Frank London Brown.
Bone's list of Chicago Renaissance writers includes fiction writers like Richard Wright, William Attaway, and Willard Motley along with poets like Frank Marshall Davis and Margaret Walker. [18] The term " Chicago Black Renaissance " is often used to denote creativity in all the arts, not just in literature, during the 1930s-50s.
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 ...
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 .
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.
A part of the Chicago Black Renaissance, his novels portrayed African-American experiences in Chicago and urban America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2019, he was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. [ 2 ]
For nearly 90 years, an unfinished and unpublished novel from the famous Black Renaissance writer waited quietly in the archives.
The black press during its golden years became, "the greatest single power in the Negro race." [7] During the 'Chicago Black Renaissance', the ANP was an outlet for African American writers. The ANP was a bridge between the black masses and the black intellectuals. The ANP globalized the African American Civil Rights struggle.