African American movie theaters in Chicago
Posted on September 16th, 2016
On the 4th floor of Booth library near the Library Technology Services desk is a new exhibit featuring movie theaters in Chicago that catered to African American movie-goers. The display features the buildings and their history, as well as books on African American film studies and DVDs of black films from the era that might have been screened in the theaters. See below for a sample of the titles available and pictures of some of the fantastic old theaters. Thanks to LTS staff member Lee Whitacre for her research and curation of the exhibit.
- Blackface: Reflections on African-americans and the Movies
- George, Nelson.
- PN1995.9.N4 G46 1994
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- Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
- Scott, Ellen C., 1978-
- PN1995.9.N4 S35 2014
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- Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
- PN1995.9.U64 C65 2003
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- Downtown Chicago’s Historic Movie Theatres
- Schiecke, Konrad, 1938-
- PN2277.C4 S35 2012
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- Pekin: The Rise and Fall Of Chicago’s First Black-owned Theater
- Bauman, Thomas, 1948-
- PN2277.C42 P45 2014
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- Soul Searching: Black-themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise Of Blaxploitation
- Sieving, Christopher.
- PN1995.9.N4 S54 2011
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The Roosevelt Theater
The Black owned Black operated Pekin Theater opened n 1904.
Regal Theater
The famous Chicago Theater
