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
The Great Migration
Wednesday Afternoon Thread: The Chicago Blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois, by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues, making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier, and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano and sometimes saxophone and trumpet. The music developed in the first half of … [Read more...] about Wednesday Afternoon Thread: The Chicago Blues
Saturday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Hope your weekend is a good one Obots! We conclude our series on The Great Migration with how the new populations in the north changed political structures and its enduring legacy. Their painful experience of disenfranchisement in the South, coupled with their belief in the power of the ballot, led many migrants to register to vote almost immediately after arriving in the … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Friday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Happy Friday Obots! (but you won't be too happy once you read today's post on our series for the week) We continue looking at the history of The Great Migration African-americans‘ letters to northern newspapers were among the best and most voluminous sources for understanding the migration process and interpreting the migrants’ motivations for leaving. Seven letters to the … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Thursday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Happy Thursday! The music during the exodus of millions of African Americans to the northern states reflected the spirit and hardship of the times.This music traveled from the Southern Diaspora to the North: Black migrants told their stories in many forms from letters to poems to paintings. Music offered one of the most original forms in which the migration narrative was … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Great Migration