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The Negro in Illinois - The WPA Papers (Hardcover, New)
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The Negro in Illinois - The WPA Papers (Hardcover, New)
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The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the
Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works
Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet
Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro
in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine
Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other
major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the
African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various
aspects of public and domestic life, recreation, politics,
religion, literature, and performing arts. After the project's
cancellation in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for
more than half a century--until now. Editor Brian Dolinar provides
an informative introduction and epilogue which explain the origins
of the project and place it in the context of the Black Chicago
Renaissance.
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