Richard A. Courage

Introduction

Part One: An Account of Origins
1. The Tuskegee Connection
2. Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition
3. The New Negro in Chicago

Part Two: Bronzeville's Social Muse
4. Year of Transition
5. Birthing the Blues and Other Black Musical Forms
6. Bronzeville and the Documentary Spirit
7. The Documentary Eye
8. Bronzeville's "Writing Clan"
9. Bronzeville and the Novel
10. Bronzeville and the Poets
11. The Wheel Turns