Black World Hoyt Fuller, Editor Tan 1950 Negro Digest 1942 Ebony 1945 Park movie theater 1951 Jet 1951 theatrical clientelle Johnson Publishing Eddie Flagg the bellboy Earl Fatha Hines NBC Orchestra & Review "Taking care" of guests c.1928-37 Ritz Lounge Supreme Life Insurance Co. Olivet Baptist Church Grand Terrace Ballroom Ritz Hotel Stelzer's Lounge PERSHING ROAD 3501 South Parkway 3101 S Parkway 3955 S Parkway 31st St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 41st St 43rd St 45th St 47th St South Parkway Blvd South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway 3624 S Parkway 4644 S. Grand Boulevard Ida B Wells House Metropolitan Theatre L TRAIN TRACKS Victory Monument c. 1917-30 Metropolitan Theater Erskine Tate Fats Waller L TRAIN TRACKS Bob Schofner leaders charismatic black activist A. Philip Nat "King" Cole Omer Simeon Randolph and former porter Milton "Pee Wee" Jackson Quinn Wilson Webster, head of the Chicago union local Cavel Chilton Wallace Bishop Sammy Stewart Louis Armstrong Clarence Jones and his Syncopators The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Warwick Hall 543 E. 47th St. 1925 41st St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 47th St Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue The Peerless 1924-30's New Grand Terrace Joe "King" Oliver with the Dixie Syncopators Erskine Tate 338 E. 35th St. Palm Tavern 446 E 47th St Plantation Cafe Jabbo Smith Carroll Dickerson's Band 1937 - Earl Hines Dave Peyton Cab Calloway Sammy Stewart Band Sunset Cafe 315-17 E. 35th St. at S. Calumet Miles Davis bebop Buster Bailey poems by Langston Hughes Chicago Renaissance Louis Armstrong Sunset Stompers Charlie Elgar's Band 1921-1937 Boyd Atkins Band white owned Tiny Parham black & tan cabaret L TRAIN TRACKS Earl Hines' band with Dizzy Gillespie and paintings by Archibald Motley Chicago Jazz 35th St. / S. Calumet / S. Prairie Ave c.1922-26 c. 1920-22 Charlie Parker Ambassadors Social Club Club Alvadere MC at galas Apex Club Nest Club news of meetings held by organizations, lodges, porters risk jail Walter White, c.1926-28 Junie Cobb music, literature and art US Navy "Hell Cats" Von Freeman and Southern cities Langston Hughes, Johnny St. Cyr events, women's and social Lonnie Simmons banned the newspaper Gwendolyn Brooks, Dave Nelson clubs, as well as church smuggle South read from pulpits and exacted serious Richard Durham Joe Poston news Mayor of Bronzeville Garfield C Smith penalties on anyone Johnny Wells found distributing or Earl Hines reading it. Scottsboro boys, Jimmy Noone war in Ethiopia gossip columnist Chicago Defender "Everybody Goes When the Wagon Comes" Red Summer Riots of 1919 Victory Edition Emmett Till:Defender Pullman Porters Mayor of Bronzeville 26 sep 42 Jet photos seen by millions Bud Biliken Club / Parade Freddie Keppard The Great Migration Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon Emmett Till funeral 1955 birthplace of gospel music 31st St & S Indiana Ave c. 1930's anti-lynching legislation Miss Bronze America Pilgrim Baptist Church Chicago Defender integrated sports beauty pageants Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ Zeppelin Inn L TRAIN TRACKS 3301 S Indiana Ave 3435 S Indiana 31st St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 41st St 43rd St 45th St 47th St Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue 3140 S Indiana Ave 4100 S Indiana Avenue Unity Hall Chicago Whip Negro Newspaper Chicago Defender P u b l i s h e r s Association 1940 219 E 43rd St Indiana Theater Associated Negro Press Pittsburgh Courier Storefront Church "There is a small group of young Negro artists in Chicago that will be heard L TRAIN TRACKS Black Metropolis intro 1945 Daydream 1934 For My People 1942 from one of these days". At present they are Ted "Midnight Man" Watson Double V campaigne struggling in garage and Twelve Million Black Voices top floor tenement studios. .They paint for Richard Wright Margaret Walker the love of it. There is much talent in the group. Native Son " Willard Motley 1940 novelists Arna Bontemps Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes Paul Robeson, and William Attaway, Lionel Hampton, Charles White's "There Were No Crops This Year," Frank Marshall Davis, Count Basie as the best black and white work in the show Ted Ward, Fern Gayden Willard Motley and other young black WPA Writer's Group writers 1944_Alice Browning and Fern Chicago Gayden launched the journal artists--William South Side Writers' Project Negro Story, published both Carter for "Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro," poems and short stories. watercolors, American Negro Exposition Chicago Coliseum Charles Davis for July 4 to September 2, 1940 black and white--won first "Destination Freedom" radio prizes. Liz Catlett "We Too Look at America" dedication of the history drama series, written South Side Community Art Center by Eleanor by Richard Durham 1948-50 Roosevelt all the artists of the Chicago WMAQ Chicago Renaissance Renaissance for the first time in a single 1940 "Diamond Jubilee," show the 75th anniversary of remarkable interplay between creativity, Charles White: "I feel that the job of everyone emancipation from scholarship and radical politics formed the Shoe Shine Boy in a creative field is to picture the whole slavery, American Negro core of the Chicago Renaissance social scene. .Paint is the only weapon I L TRAIN TRACKS Exposition Chicago Charles White have with which to fight what I resent. If I Coliseum. could talk I would talk about it. Since I paint, I must paint about it. " Richmond Barthe "The purpose of the Art Center movement, is not to superimpose Chicago Renaissance artists-- Richmond Barthe, preconceived ideas of art, but rather George Neal's "The Hat" to find, develop and broaden the Margaret Taylor Goss Gordon Parks' Artists & Models Ball [Burroughs], William Carter, first indigenous culture of the community." Eldzier Cortor, Charles photographic Illinois Art Project stafer Peter Pollack Davis, Ramon Gabriel, exhibit. Joseph Kersey, William A Street in Bronzeville 1945 Gwendolyn Brooks Federal Art Project of the WPA McBride, Archibald Motley, George Neal, Gordon Parks, Charles Sebree, Charles White Pulitzer Prize 1950 South Side Community Art Center Bethel AME Church Binga Bank 36st St & S Michigan Ave 4440 S Michigan Ave 31st St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 41st St 43rd St 45th St Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Dreamland Cafe L TRAIN TRACKS Illinois Writers Project "Negro in Illinois" study WPA employmnet for black writers "I Tried to be a Communist", Richard Wright, Atlantic Monthly, 1944 Left Front magazine, 1930-1935 Chicago 1933 Marxist club for writers, L TRAIN TRACKS John Reed Club artists, and intellectuals 1929-1936 "A Red Love Note", "Rest for the Weary", "Everywhere Burning Waters Rise", by Richard Wright Wabash Avenue YMCA 3763 S Wabash Ave L TRAIN TRACKS 31st St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 41st St 43rd St 45th St Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wilbur Sweatman Dave Peyton L TRAIN TRACKS George Mitchell Kid Ory c.1910's-1920 Bob Schofner Ada "Bricktop" Bud Scott Smith Jimmy Bertrand Florence Mills Zue Robertson Vendome Theater 1948 Cora Green Warren "Baby" Dodds Alberta Hunter physicians lawyers architects music Reuben Reeves producers Cab and Blanche Calloway Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith Erskine Tate and the Vendome Theater Clara Smith Symphony Orchestra Panama Club Douglas National Bank Charlie Allen Earl Hines Ethel Waters and her Jazz Masters Sammy Stewart Fats Waller Clarence Jones J. Glover Compton & the Syncopators Victory Life Insurance Co Reuben Reeves 1930s-1947 c.1910's-49 c.1920's L TRAIN TRACKS Grand Theater State Street Theater Vendome Theatre Bud's Eat Shop Oriental Cafe Overton Hygienic Building Chicago Bee Newspaper Owl Theater 3619-27 S. State St 3647-55 S. State 31st St 3110 S State St 3145 S. State St. 3406 S State St 3501 S. State 4653 S State St 33rd St 35th St 39th St 41st St 43rd St 45th St State Street State Street State Street L TRAIN TRACKS State Street L TRAIN TRACKS State Street L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS State Street State Street State Street 3030 S State St 3132 S State St 3353 S State St 3435 S State St 3445 S State St 3502 S. State St. 3618 S State St Elite Club Foote's Resteraunt Lincoln Theater Lincoln Donut House Cabin Inn Monogram Theater South Side Cotton Club New Deluxe Cafe Dreamland Ballroom BLACK & TAN Sidney Bechet Jelly Roll Morton King Oliver Ethel Waters Johnny & Warren "Baby" Dodds Jelly Roll Morton Erskine Tate Louis Armstrong and Hot Five Earl Hines Ma Rainey Alberta Hunter Alberta Hunter Sidney Bechet Lawrence Duhé Federal & 31st St Ethel Waters Tony's Tavern Snow White & 7 Dwarfes motif interior Wentworth Avenue Chicago Rock Island & Penn Central RR.