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  • Introduction

  • John Michael Cooper, Southwestern University, Texas
  • Book:
    Margaret Bonds: <i>The Montgomery Variations</i> and Du Bois <i>Credo</i>
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    The Great Migration, which began in the late nineteenth century and witnessed the movement of more than six million Black folk from the agrarian US South to the urban North between 1919 and 1970, and the flourishing of “Black Renaissances” in Harlem, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and other Northern urban centers were the essential soil in which are rooted not only the two works that are the subject of this book, but also the lives and careers of Margaret Bonds, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes. This chapter explores the roles of those two large societal seizings of freedom for the poor and oppressed as the context for Margaret Bonds’s career and the source of her career-long commitment to using her art to uplift what she in 1942 called “our oppressed Race” and work for global equality.