โ Genevieve Cogman
๐ Fiction
๐
2021
๐ Pan Books
๐ English
โ 217 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Smoketown: the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
โ Scribed by Mark Whitaker
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1501122428
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in the country, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party and then rallying black support for World War II. It fielded two of the greatest baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz pioneers Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner; Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson--and August Wilson himself. Some of the most glittering figures of the...
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