Introduction
By Cheryl Lester and John Edgar Tidwell

Richard Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, and Chicago Renaissance
By Lawrence R. Rodgers

Response
By Cheryl Lester

"A Weapon ofIntegration": Frank Marshal Davis and the Politics of Jazz
By John Gennari

Response
By Douglas Henry Daniels

From Chicago Renaissance to Chicago Renaissance: The Poetry of Fenton Johnson
By Lisa Woolley

Response
By Joseph Harrinton

"I'd Rather Be a Lamppost in Chicago": Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance of African American Literature
By Deborah Barnes

Response
By Theodore O. Mason, Jr.

"I Was a Weaver of Jagged Words": Social Function in the Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis
By John Edgar Tidwell

Forgotten Jungle Songs: Primitivist Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
By Edward Marx

Classroom Uses of Langston Hughes' Poetry
By Shelia Cunningham Sims

Langston Hughes' "On the Road": No Path to Freedom
By Jeanette S. White and Clement A. White

Review of Free to Dream: The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes by Audrey Osofsky
By Abiba Sullivan Harper