47th Street shopping and strolling — Bronzeville's Black consumer corridor

CTL-E-1293 · Practice · other · 1915–1965

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Everyday shopping, errand-running, and social promenading along 47th Street (especially 47th & King Drive / Wabash) in Bronzeville: buying clothes, shoes, groceries, insurance, and tailor-made suits within the Black Belt, plus the evening practice of dressing up 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-029; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Timuel Black interviewed in Daily Northwestern, "Bronzeville: A struggle for identity"
City of Chicago Landmark Designation Reports, Black Metropolis–Bronzeville

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