Autore: Reed Christopher Robert Reed

From Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as …

The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American …

During the Roaring ’20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of African Americans in …

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to …