Smoketown : the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance / Mark Whitaker.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitaker, Mark (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > History.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American athletes > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
Jazz musicians > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Civilization.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American athletes.
African Americans.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Jazz musicians.
Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
HISTORY / African American.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxi, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
Smoke town
Format: Book

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