Bronzeville, Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943.
Synopsis: In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States 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, eventually producing over a thousand documentary images of Bronzeville’s life. This remarkable coverage of a black urban community—the bustling city streets and sidewalks, prosperous middle-class businesses, thriving cabarets, as well as dirt-poor migrants from the deep South—represents the only significant collection of photographs of black Chicago during one of the defining moments in American cultural history.
This book should be a part of every photography and African American history collection. Highly Recommended.
Other Resources:
- Bridges of Memory : Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration
- Bridges of Memory Volume 2: Chicago’s Second Generation of Black Migration
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