This exhibition features pages dedicated to Bronzeville, the African American community on the south side of Chicago. Our focus is on the period of the 1930s-1940s, especially as it derives from the fundamental text of Drake and Cayton's work, Black Metropolis (1945). We have chosen our pages by selecting themes from Black Metropolis--religious life, social life, political life, business life, and community leadership. Each of these is also featured as part of the Chicago Defender newspaper's description of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. That event--the Century of Progress--was a highly prominent display of Chicago as a city during these years. How do we use the Fair to think about Bronzeville and the Defender? How do we use the Defender and Bronzeville to think about the Fair?