Whitaker, Mark,

SMOKETOWN : THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE OTHER GREAT BLACK RENAISSANCE / Untold story of the other great Black Renaissance Mark Whitaker. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - xxi, 404 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cast of characters -- 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.

9781501122392 RM 139.90 9781501122422 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) 9781501122439 (ebook)

2017019428


African Americans--History.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African Americans--Intellectual life.--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African Americans--Social conditions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--20th century.
African American athletes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Jazz musicians--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.


Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Civilization.

F159.P69 / N487 2018

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