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1. Richard Durham, 1948 Richard Durham, 1948 Dramatists; Authors; Journalists; Men; Typewriters; Lamps; Clocks & watches; Paper; Books; Minorities; From 1948 through 1950, Richard Durham wrote scripts for a series of Black history radio dramas called "Destination Freedom." Durham had analyzed the Black press in Chicago for the Illinois Writers Project...
2. Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, 1949 Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, 1949 Authors; Poets; Women; Men; Books; Public libraries; Celebrations; Minorities; Hughes and Brooks celebrated the publication of an award-winning anthology, The Poetry of the Negro, at the George Cleveland Hall branch, Chicago Public Library. This "definitive anthology," co-authored...
3. Margaret Walker, 1942 Margaret Walker, 1942 Poets; Women; Authors; Minorities; Margaret Walker's first book of poetry, For My People, published in 1942, was the winner of the prestigious Yale University Younger Poet's Award. This publicity photograph appeared on the dust jacket of...
4. Richard Wright, 1940, as he completed Native Son Richard Wright, 1940, as he completed Native Son Authors; Men; Minorities; Chicago lawyer Leon Despres inscribed the back of this photograph when he sent it to Horace Cayton, co-author of Black Metropolis, in 1969. Cayton was then at work on a biography of his friend, Richard...
5. Charlemae Hill Rollins, 1950's Charlemae Hill Rollins, 1950's Librarians; Women; Minorities; Authors; Race discrimination; As children's librarian at the Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library from 1932 to 1963, Charlemae Hill Rollins set generations of Bronzeville youth on paths to achievement. Beginning in the 1930's,...
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