Introduction: the Regal Theater and Black Culture 1
Notes Introduction: the Regal Theater and Black Culture 1. Dempsey Travis, one of Chicago’s most prominent African American businessmen, who achieved his success in the field of real estate, has also made important contributions as an independent scholar of Chicago’s Black political and cultural history. In his several works in the field, Travis provides important information and insight on the Regal Theater. See, for example, Dempsey J. Travis, An Autobiography of Black Chicago (Chicago: Urban Research Institute, 1981) and Autobiography of Black Jazz (Chicago: Urban Research Institute, 1983). 2. Chicago Defender, January 14, 1928, pt. 1, p. 8. 3. Ibid.; Chicago Defender, January 14, 1928, pt. 1, p.1. 4. Ibid., February 7, 1959, p. 18. 5. Ibid. 6. Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1973, sec. S4A, p. 2. 7. W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clifts, eds., Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: Da Capo Press, 1981), pp. 412, 421, 441. 8. Ibid. pp. 515, 735; Jessie Parkhurst Guzman, ed., Negro Year Book: A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life, 1941-1946 (Tuskegee, Alabama: Tuskegee Institute, 1947), p. 17. Also see “Chicago Renaissance 1932–1950: Images and Documents from the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Charlemae Hill Rollins,” accessed March 14, 2003, from Chicago Public Library Digital Collection: http://www.chipublib.org/digital/chiren/instrollins.html 9. See John N. Ingham and Lynne B. Feldman, African–American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 492. 10. See, for example, “Doctor with Big Heart,” Ebony Magazine, Janauary 1958, pp. 51–53, 56; Chicago Defender, December 28, 1957, p.
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