| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Anne Meis Knupfer. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. x, 244. Cloth $40.00, paper $20.00.

The activist community of Chicago that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century ebbed during the 1920s and experienced rebirth during the Depression and the three decades that followed. Referring to the period between 1930 and 1960 as the Chicago Black Renaissance, Anne Meis Knupfer argues that there was a "revitalization of the black expressive arts" and a rise in "social protests" that highlighted the significant and impressive role of black women. Defining the primary forms of activism in the renaissance as an awareness of the intellectual relationship between black Americans and their African roots or "pan-African intellectuality," an acute interest in and support of the arts, and an actively engaged protest agenda, Knupfer points to the myriad of institutions and programs that were either created by or heavily staffed by women as the pivotal forces behind the success of the renaissance. Those female-centered arenas such as YWCAs, schools, and public housing certainly played a central role in the participation of women, but so, too, did community centers, libraries, and churches. All of them shaped and reshaped the social, political, and cultural development in black Chicago.

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