Smoketown : the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
by Whitaker, Mark (Author)
Summary
"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 striver... Full description
- 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.