The Bronzeville Times

The Bronzeville Times
	Extra, Extra.......Read All About IT!!!!			July 13th, 2001
	This isssue features	Famous writers of	"The Black Metropolis".
		Richard Wright reveals aspects of racism in his writing. He is the author of several books such as Blackboy, and Native Son. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.
	In 1895, Ida B. Wells published "The Red Record," a study on lynchings which concluded that race hatred, not rape, was the real reason behind the rising number of lynchings of African Americans. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.		Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American writer to both win the Pulitzer Prize (1949) and to be appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1976). Brooks received more than fifty honorary doctorates from colleges and universities. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.
		Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, was based on her knowledge of the working-class black tenants who rented from her father. The play was inspired by the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem," in which he asks: "What happens to a dream deferred?.. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS. Horace Cayton came to Chicago in 1929 to study sociology at the University of Chicago. In the 1930s and 1940s, he became one of the preeminent black sociologists in America. His works include Black Metropolis, a classic study of Chicago's Bronzeville. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.