Chicago Black Renaissance

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African American cultural movement artistic movement cultural movement historical period

The Chicago Black Renaissance was a flourishing cultural and artistic movement in Chicago during the early to mid-20th century, marked by significant achievements in literature, music, visual arts, and intellectual life within the city’s African American community.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Chicago Renaissance	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	African American cultural movement ⓘ artistic movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ
centeredInNeighborhood	South Side, Chicago ⓘ surface form: Bronzeville South Side, Chicago ⓘ surface form: Chicago South Side
follows	Great Migration of African Americans out of the region ⓘ surface form: Great Migration
hasCulturalDomain	dance ⓘ journalism ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ political thought ⓘ sociology ⓘ theater ⓘ visual arts ⓘ
hasEndTime	1950s ⓘ
hasGenre	blues ⓘ gospel music ⓘ jazz ⓘ modernist art ⓘ poetry ⓘ prose ⓘ social realism ⓘ
hasInstitution	Chicago Defender ⓘ Ebony magazine ⓘ Negro Story magazine ⓘ South Side Community Art Center ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
hasMainSubject	African American culture ⓘ African American intellectual life ⓘ African American literature ⓘ African American music ⓘ African American visual art ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Archibald Motley ⓘ Arna Bontemps ⓘ Charles S. Johnson ⓘ Charles White ⓘ Elder Watson Diggs ⓘ Fenton Johnson ⓘ Frank Marshall Davis ⓘ Gwendolyn Brooks ⓘ Horace Cayton ⓘ Horace Cayton ⓘ surface form: Horace R. Cayton Jr. Katherine Dunham ⓘ Langston Hughes ⓘ Mahalia Jackson ⓘ Margaret Walker ⓘ Richard Wright ⓘ St. Clair Drake ⓘ Theodore Ward ⓘ Thomas A. Dorsey ⓘ Willard Motley ⓘ
hasPart	Black Chicago poetry movement ⓘ Black Chicago press ⓘ Black Chicago theater ⓘ Chicago blues scene ⓘ Chicago jazz scene ⓘ South Side Community Art Center ⓘ South Side Writers Group ⓘ
hasStartTime	1920s ⓘ
hasTheme	community building ⓘ migration ⓘ racial injustice ⓘ racial uplift ⓘ urban Black experience ⓘ
influenced	Black Arts Movement ⓘ civil rights era cultural expression ⓘ later African American literature ⓘ
influencedBy	Great Migration of African Americans out of the region ⓘ surface form: Great Migration of African Americans from the South Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Jim Crow laws ⓘ surface form: Jim Crow segregation in the American South
locatedIn	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Chicago Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
partOf	African American history ⓘ history of Chicago ⓘ

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Great Migration of African Americans out of the region → effect → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Great Migration of African Americans

Archibald Motley → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ

Carl Sandburg → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chicago Renaissance