Dating on the Stroll (47th Street promenade)

CTL-E-1279 · Practice · other · 1930–1949

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The evening promenade along State Street and 47th Street — 'the Stroll' — where young Black Chicagoans dressed up, saw and were seen, and courted. Timuel Black: 47th Street was 'the place to gawk and be gawked at.'

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-011; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Oral history (primary) via newspaper (primary source)

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