Chicago Black Renaissance

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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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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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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
South Side Writers Group → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
South Side Writers Group → partOf → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chicago Black cultural institutions network
South Side Community Art Center → era → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
South Side Community Art Center → culturalMovement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chicago Black Renaissance cultural movement
Negro Story magazine → contributedTo → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
subject surface form: Negro Story
Negro Story magazine → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
subject surface form: Negro Story
Theodore Ward → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Theodore Ward → associatedWith → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Arna Bontemps → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Horace Cayton → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Nightlife → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Black Belt → partOf → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Barbecue → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
The Octoroon Girl → artHistoricalContext → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Brown Girl After the Bath → hasCulturalContext → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Annie Allen → literaryMovement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
A Street in Bronzeville → literaryMovement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
We Real Cool → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
Carl → movement → Chicago Black Renaissance ⓘ
subject surface form: Carl Sandburg
this entity surface form: Chicago Renaissance