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The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism / Anne Meis Knupfer.

Title: The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism / Anne Meis Knupfer.
Author: Knupfer, Anne Meis, 1951-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Description

x, 244 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism from 1930 to 1955. Anne Meis Knupfer's book demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering -- from cover.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Models of Black activism -- Parkway Community House -- Community sponsorship of literature and the arts -- Schools as sites of activism -- Black women's clubs -- Women's activism in public housing -- The Chicago YWCAs -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Black female community activists, artists, and professionals in Chicago, 1930-60 -- Appendix B. Chicago Black Southside community organizations and addresses, 1930-60.

ISBN

0252030478 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252072936 (paper : alk. paper)
9780252030475
9780252072932

LCCN

^^2005012420

OCLC

60373441

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library