African-American cultural flowering in 1930s & 1940s Illinois
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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 movement included such famous African-American writers as Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, and Lorraine Hansberry, as well as musicians Thomas A. Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines and Mahalia Jackson[1][2][3][4][5] and artists William Edouard Scott, Elizabeth Catlett, Katherine Dunham, Charles Wilbert White, Margaret Burroughs, Charles C. Dawson, Archibald John Motley, Jr., Walter Sanford, and Eldzier Cortor. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African-Americans to Chicago's South Side, African-American writers, artists, and community leaders began promoting racial pride and a new black consciousness, similar to that of the Harlem Renaissance.[6] Unlike the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Black Renaissance did not receive the same amount of publicity on a national scale. Among the reasons for this are that the Chicago group participants presented no singularly prominent "face", wealthy patrons were less involved, and New York City—home of Harlem—was the higher profile national publishing center.[1]
^ ab"Trice: Tracking Chicago's black renaissance". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Archived from the original on 2016-02-07. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
^"Chicago Black Renaissance". Encyclopedia of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
^"Chicago – The Other Black Renaissance". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
^"Renaissance in Black Metropolis: Chicago, 1930-1950". BlackChicagoRenaissance.org. National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
^Knupfer, Anne Meis (2006). The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press
^"From Riots to Renaissance (1919–1940)". wttw.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
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