Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943

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In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the US to record and publicize conditions in cities, towns, and rural areas that were the destination of an unprecedented migration. Two of these photographers, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam, spent time on Chicago’s South Side, in the end producing over a thousand documentary images of Bronzeville’s life. This remarkable coverage of a black urban community—the only significant number of photographs of black Chicago all through this pivotal era—has in large part gone unpublished until now.

In over 100 handsome full-page black-and-white photographs of bustling city streets and sidewalks, prosperous middle-class businesses, thriving cabarets, in addition to dirt-poor migrants from the deep South, this stunning tribute captures the vitality of a city whose burgeoning black population produced a vibrant and sophisticated culture now familiar all over the world. With original essays on the migration and the photography project, and up to date observation by Richard Wright and others, Bronzeville is a unique and exceptionally beautiful evocation of probably the most defining moments in American cultural history.


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