Type: Lab
This project features pages dedicated to Bronzeville, the African American community on the south side of Chicago. Our focus is on the period of the 1930s-1940s, especially as it derives from the fundamental text of Drake and Cayton's work, Black Metropolis (1945). We have chosen our pages by selecting themes from Black Metropolis--religious life, social life, political life, business life, and community leadership. Each of these is also featured as part of the Chicago Defender newspaper's description of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. That event--the Century of Progress--was a highly prominent display of Chicago as a city during these years. How do we use the Fair to think about Bronzeville and the Defender? How do we use the Defender and Bronzeville to think about the Fair?
Team Members
- Carmen Chavez (Spring 2022)
- Chase Pellegrini de Paur (2021-22)
- Chloe Alimurong (Spring 2022)
- Felicia Wang (Fall 2021)
- Jasmine Magana (2021-22)
- Jeremy Tang (Fall 2021)
- Joy Liu (Spring 2022)
- Kate MacCary (Spring 2022)
- Malynda Wollert (Spring 2022)
- Riya Mohan (Spring 2022)
- Sunny Gao (Spring 2022)
- Yegor Kursakov (Spring 2022)
Image credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-000699-D (b&w film neg.).