Bronzeville’s Black-Owned Bookstores – Chicago Review of Books

Bronzeville’s Black-Owned Bookstores – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] With renewed interest across the country in Black-owned bookstores and booksellers—like Chicago’s own Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery—now is an important time to remember that Bronzeville was an epicenter of Black bookselling in the 1940s.  Remembered mostly for its theaters, taverns, jazz clubs, and other venues of commerce, Bronzeville was a thriving Black Metropolis in … Read more