Good Morning POU! We continue to look at the impact of black writers, artists and publications during the period between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, particularly the Chicago influence. Created in 1942 by Chicago-based publisher John H. Johnson, who went on to create Ebony, Tan, and Jet magazines, the original series of Negro Digest … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Chicago Black Renaissance
Friday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Happy Friday POU! Destination Freedom premiered on June 27, 1948 on Chicago radio WMAQ and consisted of 91 different scripts produced solely by Richard Durham. Destination Freedom was a provocative half-hour show that showcased the lives and accomplishments of prominent African Americans. Destination Freedom demonstrated personalities that were in the words of the author … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Thursday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Good Morning POU! We continue to look at the contributions and cultural impact of Chicago's Black Renaissance period. The Chicago Defender was the most influential African American newspaper during the early and mid 20th Century. With a national editorial perspective, The Defender played a leading role in the widespread Great Migration of African Americans from the … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Wednesday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Good Morning POU! (if you haven't read the novel Native Son, be forewarned that today's post is a summary of the book) “I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Tuesday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – Chicago Black Renaissance
Good Morning POU! The South Side Writers Group was a circle of African-American writers and poets formed in the 1930s in Chicago, which included Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, Fenton Johnson, Theodore Ward, Garfield Gordon, Frank Marshall Davis, Julius Weil, Dorothy Sutton, Russell Marshall, Robert Davis, Marion Perkins, Arthur Bland, Fern Gayden, and … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – Chicago Black Renaissance