| 1. |  | Horace Cayton in this office at Parkway Community House, 1941 | Offices; Community centers; Men; Desks; Books; Paper; Windows; Baskets; Minorities; | Hired in 1939 as director of Good Shepherd Community Center, Cayton supervised its move to new quarters at 5120 S. Parkway (now King Drive), and suggested that the name of the institution be changed to... |
| 2. |  | 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... |
