CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction   •   Steven C. Tracy

Robert S. Abbott   •   Charlene Regester

William A. Attaway   •   Richard Yarborough

Claude A. Barnett   •   Bill V. Mullen

Henry Lowington Blakely II   •   Lovalerie King

Alden Bland   •   Joyce Hope Scott

Edward Bland   •   Lawrence Jackson

Marita Bonner (Occomy)   •   Kimberly N. Ruffin

Gwendolyn Brooks   •   Stephen Caldwell Wright

Frank London Brown   •   Michael D. Hill

Alice C. Browning   •   Bill V. Mullen

Dan Burley   •   Kimberly Stanley

Margaret Esse Danner   •   Keith D. Leonard

Frank Marshall Davis   •   Kathryn Waddell Takara

Richard Durham   •   Patrick Naick

Lorraine Hansberry   •   Lisbeth Lipari

Fenton Johnson   •   James C. Hall

John H. Johnson   •   Jamal Eric Watson

“Mattie” Marian Minus   •   Donyel Hobbs Williams

Willard Motley   •   Alan M. Wald

Gordon Parks   •   Elizabeth Schultz

John Sengstacke   •   Jamal Eric Watson

Margaret Walker   •   Maryemma Graham

Theodore Ward   •   Alan M. Wald

Richard Wright   •   Robert Butler

Frank Garvin Yerby   •   James L. Hill

Black Writers and the Federal Theatre Project   •   Angelene Jamison-Hall

African American Music in Chicago during the Chicago Renaissance   •   Robert H. Cataliotti

The Black Press and the Black Chicago Renaissance   •   Zoe Trodd

The Chicago School of Sociology and the Black Chicago Renaissance   •   William R. Nash

John Reed Clubs/League of American Writers   •   James Smethurst

Materials for Further Study   •   Steven C. Tracy

Contributors

Index