South Side Writers Group Explained

The South Side Writers Group was a circle of African-American writers and poets formed in the 1930s in South Side, Chicago. The informal group included Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, Fenton Johnson, Theodore Ward, Garfield Gordon, Frank Marshall Davis, Julius Weil, Dorothy Sutton, Marian Minus, Russell Marshall, Robert Davis, Marion Perkins, Arthur Bland, Fern Gayden, and Alberta Sims.^[1] Consisting of some twenty members, the group championed the New Realism movement and social realism.^[2] They met at the Abraham Lincoln Centre on South Cottage Grove Avenue near the Bronzeville District.^{[1] [3]}

See also

• Chicago Black Renaissance

Notes and References

1. Book: Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance And Women's Activism. 15 May 2013. 2006. University of Illinois Press. 978-0252072932.
2. Bone, Robert (1986). "Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance". Callaloo, 28, 446–468.
3. Web site: MTS : Artifacts: Frank Marshall Davis Papers.