Richard A. Courage is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. Christopher Robert Reed is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

Certificate of Excellence, Illinois State Historical Society, 2021— Illinois State Historical Society

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword / Darlene Clark HineAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Richard A. Courage1. The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893–1930 / Christopher Robert Reed2. Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893 / John McClus3. Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893–1926 / Mary Jo Deegan4. James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago / Richard Yarborough5. Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family / Richard A. Courage and James C. Hall6. Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: The Black Portrait / Amy M. Mooney7. The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness / Bonnie Claudia Harrison8. Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers / Clovis E. Semmes9. Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924–1930 / Margaret Rose Vendryes10. King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer / Brenda Ellis Fredericks11. Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance / Richard A. CourageLiterary Selections"Auditions" / John McCluskey Jr.From "Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob," The Messenger 5 / Charles S. Johnson"Entering Chicago" / J. M. [Frank Marshall?] DavisNotes on ContributorsIndexBack cover

Richard A. Courage is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. Christopher Robert Reed is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

Certificate of Excellence, Illinois State Historical Society, 2021— Illinois State Historical Society

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword / Darlene Clark HineAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Richard A. Courage1. The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893–1930 / Christopher Robert Reed2. Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893 / John McClus3. Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893–1926 / Mary Jo Deegan4. James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago / Richard Yarborough5. Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family / Richard A. Courage and James C. Hall6. Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: The Black Portrait / Amy M. Mooney7. The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness / Bonnie Claudia Harrison8. Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers / Clovis E. Semmes9. Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924–1930 / Margaret Rose Vendryes10. King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer / Brenda Ellis Fredericks11. Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance / Richard A. CourageLiterary Selections"Auditions" / John McCluskey Jr.From "Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob," The Messenger 5 / Charles S. Johnson"Entering Chicago" / J. M. [Frank Marshall?] DavisNotes on ContributorsIndexBack cover

Richard A. Courage is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. Christopher Robert Reed is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

Certificate of Excellence, Illinois State Historical Society, 2021— Illinois State Historical Society

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword / Darlene Clark HineAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Richard A. Courage1. The Rise of Black Chicago's Culturati: Intellectuals, Authors, Artists, and Patrons, 1893–1930 / Christopher Robert Reed2. Journey to Frederick Douglass's Chicago Jubilee: Colored American Day, August 25, 1893 / John McClus3. Fannie Barrier Williams, the New Negro, and Black Feminist Pragmatism, 1893–1926 / Mary Jo Deegan4. James David Corrothers and Henry Demarest Lloyd: Black Poet and White Patron in 1890s Chicago / Richard Yarborough5. Fenton Johnson, Literary Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Class and Family / Richard A. Courage and James C. Hall6. Strategies for Visualizing Cultural Capital: The Black Portrait / Amy M. Mooney7. The Black Creole Vision of Archibald J. Motley Jr.: Hybrid Identity and New Negro Consciousness / Bonnie Claudia Harrison8. Black Chicago Pioneers in the Training of Dancers / Clovis E. Semmes9. Becoming Barthé: The Chicago Years, 1924–1930 / Margaret Rose Vendryes10. King Daniel Ganaway: Master Pictorialist Photographer / Brenda Ellis Fredericks11. Chicago's Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance / Richard A. CourageLiterary Selections"Auditions" / John McCluskey Jr.From "Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob," The Messenger 5 / Charles S. Johnson"Entering Chicago" / J. M. [Frank Marshall?] DavisNotes on ContributorsIndexBack cover