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This collection comprehensively explores the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers, its participants were invested in political activism and social change as much as literature, art, and aesthetics. This volume covers many important writers such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry as well as cultural products such as black newspapers, music, and theater. The book includes entries by experts on each subject; a discography and filmography that highlight important writers, musicians, films, and cultural presentations; and an introduction that relates the Harlem Renaissance, the White Chicago Renaissance, the Black Chicago Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement._x000B_Contributors are Robert Butler, Robert H. Cataliotti, Maryemma Graham, James C. Hall, James L. Hill, Michael Hill, Lovalerie King, Lawrence Jackson, Angelene Jamison-Hall, Keith Leonard, Lisbeth Lipari, Bill V. Mullen, Patrick Naick, William R. Nash, Charlene Regester, Kimberly Ruffin, Elizabeth Schultz, Joyce Hope Scott, James Smethurst, Kimberly M. Stanley, Kathryn Waddell Takara, Steven C. Tracy, Zoe Trodd, Alan Wald, Jamal Eric Watson, Donyel Hobbs Williams, Stephen Caldwell Wright, and Richard Yarborough. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Steven C. Tracy -- Robert S. Abbott Charlene Regester -- William A. Attaway Richard Yarborough -- Claude A. Barnett Bill V. Mullen -- Henry Lowington Blakely II Lovalerie King -- Alden Bland Joyce Hope Scott -- Edward Bland Lawrence Jackson -- Marita Bonner (Occomy) Kimberly N. Ruffin -- Gwendolyn Brooks Stephen Caldwell Wright -- Frank London Brown Michael D. Hill -- Alice C. Browning Bill V. Mullen -- Dan Burley Kimberly Stanley -- Margaret Esse Danner Keith D. Leonard -- Frank Marshall Davis Kathryn Waddell Takara -- Richard Durham Patrick Naick -- Lorraine Hansberry Lisbeth Lipari -- Fenton Johnson James C. Hall -- John H. Johnson Jamal Eric Watson -- "Mattie" Marian Minus Donyel Hobbs Williams -- Willard Motley Alan M. Wald -- Gordon Parks Elizabeth Schultz -- John Sengstacke Jamal Eric Watson -- Margaret Walker Maryemma Graham -- Theodore Ward Alan M. Wald -- Richard Wright Robert Butler -- Frank Garvin Yerby James L. Hill -- Black Writers and the Federal Theatre Project Angelene Jamison-Hall -- African American Music in Chicago during the Chicago Renaissance Robert H. Cataliotti -- The Black Press and the Black Chicago Renaissance Zoe Trodd -- The Chicago School of Sociology and the Black Chicago Renaissance William R. Nash -- John Reed Clubs/League of American Writers James Smethurst -- Materials for Further Study Steven C. Tracy -- Contributors -- Index.
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