Published in 1941, this "folk history" was accompanied by photographs compiled by the Security Farm Administration during the Great Depression.
What is 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright?
100
His poetry includes "One-Way Ticket" and "I,too, Sing America"
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
The literary term that best describes "a raisin in the sun."
What is a metaphor?
100
These industries attracted Black migrants in search of jobs to the Windy City during the Great Migration.
What are meatpacking, iron and steel?
100
The term used to refer to the exodus of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities between 1889 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
200
Born in Mississippi, he worked briefly for the U.S. Post Office in Chicago and later joined the Communist Party.
Who is Richard Wright?
200
The university Langston Hughes attended when he composed "Theme for English B"
What is Columbia?
200
The literary conceit represented by the following: "The immemorial stars must have gazed down in amazement at the lowly of England and Europe, who, with hearts full of hope, pushed out to sea to urge rebellion against tyranny and then straightaway became engaged in the slave trade."
What is irony?
200
During this, race riots erupted in 25 cities across the nation; the longest and bloodiest riot raged in Chicago.
What is the Red Summer of 1919?
200
Its invention revolutionized the cotton industry but put farmhands out of work.
What is the cotton gin?
300
A studio apartment designed to maximize all available space, converting a large area into several smaller areas.
What is the "kitchenette"?
300
From the 1920s through the 1950s, this South sde Chicago neighborhood was a thriving center of African-American culture and business.
What is Bronzeville?
300
Richard Wright evoked it as a symbol "dividing hope from despair, just as it once bisected the nation, dividing freedom from slavery."
What is the Ohio River?
400
Published in 1945, Wright's moving, autobiographical account of childhood and youth in the South depicted extreme poverty and racial violence against blacks.
What is Black Boy?
400
One of the youngest 20th-century Black writers ever to have published a volume of poetry, she was the first Black woman in American literary history to be honored in the prestigious Yale Series competition.
Who is Margaret Walker?
400
This play, which explored racially discriminating housing covenants, won the Drama Circle Critics Award for 1958-59.
What is "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry.
400
This wonderful Jazz trumpet player, originally from New Orleans, moved to Chicago in 1915.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
400
The 19th-century minstrel figure who became synonymous with the violently enforced codes of segregation.
Who is Jim Crow?
500
This 1940 novel about an impoverished Black youth living in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s brought Wright overnight fame and the freedom to write.
What is Native Son?
500
This Chicago poet was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
500
This following passage demonstrates this poem's melodic quality: "lost disinherited dispossessed and happy people filling cabarets and taverns and other people's pockets and needing bread and shoes and milk and land and money and something-- something all our own..."
What is "For My People" by Margaret Walker?
500
They founded the South Side Writers Group, which provided collegial support and critical feedback to a core group of Renaissance writers.
Who are Richard Wright and Margaret Walker?
500
When this document was signed, "there were some 4,000,000... black folk stranded and bewildered upon the land which [they] had tilled under compulsion for two and half centuries." --Richard Wright