| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2

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The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism

By Anne Meis Knupfer

(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. x, 244. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Paperbound, $20.00.)

This valuable study documents the ways in which social class, gender, and professional and organizational affiliation influenced women's activism during the Chicago Renaissance. While much work on these topics has centered on the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Anne Meis Knupfer's important volume chronicles Chicago during the period from 1930 to 1955—a time of flourishing art, theater, music, and intellectualism in the city's African American community. Chicago writers emphasized the idea that black art needed to combine aesthetics and function and to serve the cause of black freedom. The period also coincided with the arrival and assimilation of thousands of rural migrants from the South.

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