Chicago Bee
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet, later Tabloid[1] |
Owner(s) | Anthony Overton |
Founded | 1925[2] |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1947[3] |
Headquarters | Chicago Bee Building, 3647 S. State Street, Chicago |
The Chicago Bee or Chicago Sunday Bee was a
After sharing quarters with the Hygienic Company in the 1920s, the Bee moved into the new Chicago Bee Building, an Art Deco structure built between 1929 and 1931.[6] However, after Overton's bank failed in the 1930s, the two businesses shared quarters once again, as the Hygienic Company moved into the Bee building.[7]
Subsequent editors of the paper included
The Bee sponsored the original "Mayor of Bronzeville" contest which led to the use of the term "Bronzeville" for the neighborhood.
The paper's founder and owner
Very little of the Bee survives today, apart from the building it occupied. One historian was unable to find a single intact issue from the years 1925 to 1935.[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e Trodd 2011, p. 458.
- ^ Mahoney 2001, p. 71.
- ^ a b Grant & Grant 2013, p. 47.
- ^ Reed 2011, p. 104.
- ^ Capozolla 2004, p. 944.
- ^ Reed 2011, p. 98.
- ^ Ingham & Feldman 1994, p. 498.
- ^ Trodd 2011, p. 4.
- ^ Reed 2011, p. 129.
- ^ Knupfer 2006, p. 5.
- ^ a b Knupfer 2006, p. 64.
- ^ Schlabach 2013, p. xv.
- ^ a b Schlabach 2013, p. 19.
- ^ a b Mahoney 2001, p. 70.
- ^ Bates 2001, p. 203.
Works cited
- Bates, Beth Tompkins (2001). Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. ISBN 0807875368.
- Capozolla, Christopher (2004). "Owen, Chandler". Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y. ISBN 1579584586.
- Grant, Carl A.; Grant, Shelby J. (2013). The Moment: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and the Firestorm at Trinity United Church of Christ. ISBN 978-1442219977.
- Ingham, John N.; Feldman, Lynne B. (1994). "Overton, Anthony". African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 0313272530.
- Knupfer, Anne Meis (2006). The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. ISBN 0252072936.
- Mahoney, Olivia (2001). Douglas/Grand Boulevard: A Chicago Neighborhood. ISBN 0738518557.
- Reed, Christopher Robert (2011). The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. ISBN 978-0252093173.
- Savage, Beth L. (1994). African American Historic Places. ISBN 0471143456.
- Schlabach, Elizabeth (2013). Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape.
- Trodd, Zoe (2011). "The Black Press and the Black Chicago Renaissance". In Tracy, Steven C. (ed.). Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance. ISBN 978-0252093425.
- West, Sandra L. (2003). "Chicago". Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. ISBN 1438130171.