Smoketown the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
"The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place--Pittsburgh, PA--from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-cla...
| Main Author: | Whitaker, Mark (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cast of characters
- The neighborhoods of Pittsburgh
- The Brown Bomber's cornermen
- The Negro Carnegies
- The calculating crusader
- The rise and fall of "Big Red"
- Billy and Lena
- The Double V warriors
- The complex Mr. B
- "Jackie's Boswell"
- The women of "up south"
- The bard of a broken world.