South Side Writers Group

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The South Side Writers Group was a collective of African American authors and intellectuals in Chicago whose work significantly contributed to the cultural and literary flowering of the Chicago Black Renaissance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf African American literary group
Chicago Black Renaissance organization
writers collective
activePeriod 1930s
1940s
aim to foster African American literary production
to support Black writers in Chicago
associatedWith Federal Writers Project
Works Progress Administration
country United States
ethnicFocus African Americans
linked to: Black Americans
field intellectual history
literature
focus African American life in Chicago
racial injustice
working-class Black experience
genre drama
fiction
poetry
historicalSignificance key contributor to the Chicago Black Renaissance
nurtured major African American writers of the mid-20th century
influenced African American literature
Chicago literature
influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
language English
location Chicago
linked to: City of Chicago

South Side, Chicago
meetingPlace South Side community spaces in Chicago
movement African American literary renaissance
linked to: Harlem Renaissance

Chicago Black Renaissance
notableMember Arna Bontemps
Fenton Johnson
Frank Marshall Davis
Katherine Dunham
Margaret Walker
Richard Wright
Theodore Ward
Willard Motley
partOf Chicago Black cultural institutions network

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Chicago Black Renaissance hasPart South Side Writers Group