The Hyde Park Book Club of the Hyde Park Historical Society will host an online discussion of books relating to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition at their next meeting honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Monday, January 18, 2021, at 7:30 PM the Club will offer “Black History and Arts in Chicago with Richard Courage and Christopher Robert Reed” and discuss “All the World is Here!” The Black Presence at White City by Christopher Robert Reed, Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists and Intellectuals, 1983-1930 by Richard Courage and Christopher Robert Reed (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which noted here, and two other titles.
Held on Zoom, the event is open to the public, but advance registration is required.
