The NEW American Writers Museum traveling exhibit: "From Our Neighborhoods"

The writers featured in the American Writers Museum’s traveling exhibit, From Our Neighborhoods-Four Chicago Writers Who Changed America, inspired social change in America by telling stories about the people they lived and worked with in Chicago – their hopes and dreams as well as the barriers they encountered and fought.These four authors lived where you live. They walked the same streets, attended local schools, and used the same libraries that we use today. They made everyday city life the subject of their writing. This exhibit is your invitation to read these authors and see your neighborhood and city in new ways. Gwendolyn Brooks broke the color barrier for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and mentored many younger writers and poets. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, helped spur a national fair housing policy. Louis “Studs” Terkel changed how history is written by seeking out and recording the lives of “uncelebrated” people. Richard Wright’s novels and memoirs spotlighted American race relations and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement.

 

The new American Museum is opening, Spring, 2017 in downtown Chicago! 

http://americanwritersmuseum.org/from-our-neighborhoods/