CultureTechLens logoCULTURETECHLENS

“Culture, Clearly Seen.” Black Cultural Intelligence

Subscribe to CTL 10
14 flagships · 25 briefs staged (weekly from Oct 13) · 9 dossiers · 25 guides · 2,822 entities — record updated October 6, 2026

Clarence Ludd

CTL-E-3957 · Person · businessperson · 1960s–1970s

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

Owner of the High Chaparral, the South Side soul club at 7740 South Stony Island Avenue near 79th Street, one of Chicago's most popular Black clubs of the 1960s and 1970s.

Notes

RELP90 new entity (2026-10-06). Name-collision check clean.

Referenced by

Sources

Record CTL-E-3957 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 1 source · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: RELP-001.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph

Cite this record

Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Clarence Ludd (CTL-E-3957),” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, October 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-3957/

Chicago: CultureTechLens. “Clarence Ludd (CTL-E-3957).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-3957/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). Clarence Ludd (CTL-E-3957) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-3957/
MLA: CultureTechLens. “Clarence Ludd (CTL-E-3957).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, 2026, https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-3957/

Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942
Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942Photo: Jack Delano, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — see the corrections log.