Research Catalog

Title

Bronzeville : Black Chicago in pictures, 1941-1943 / [compiled by] Maren Stange.

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stange, Maren
• International Center of Photography

Description

xxxiv, 254 p. : ill.; 23 x 27 cm.

Summary

"Chicago was, notes Nicholas Lemann, "the capital of black America" in the 1940s, supplanting Harlem as the center of black culture and nationalist sentiment, home to such notables as Joe Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, Congressman William Dawson, Defender newspaper editor John Sengstacke, Ebony magazine publisher John H. Johnson, and Nation of Islam Leader Elijah Muhammad." "Bronzeville presents over 100 full-page black-and-white photographs of bustling city streets and sidewalks, prosperous middle-class businesses, thriving cabarets, and elegant churchgoers, as well as the mercilessly overcrowded "kitchenette" neighborhoods where dirt-poor migrants from the deep South struggled to survive. They capture the vitality of a city whose burgeoning black population produced a sophisticated culture that is now familiar worldwide. With an original essay on the migration and the photography project, and contemporary commentary by Richard Wright and others, here is a unique evocation of one of the defining moments in American cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Geschichte 1941-1943
• 1900-1999
• Pictorial works
• History
• Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > Pictorial works
• Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Chicago (Ill.) > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Black Chicago in Pictures / Maren Stange -- Introduction. The Federal Writers' Project in Chicago / Maren Stange -- Introduction. Aspects of the Black Belt / Richard Wright -- Pt. 1. House and Home -- Pt. 2. Work -- Pt. 3. Church -- Pt. 4. Going Out -- Selected Bibliography on the Federal Writers' Project and the Chicago Renaissance -- List of Figures with Library of Congress Negative Numbers.

ISBN

1565846184

LCCN

^^2002071894

OCLC

• 49976790
• SCSB-12493151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library