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The rise of Chicago's Black metropolis, 1920-1929

Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of Chicago's 'black metropolis' of the 1920s, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy of this dynamic period of racial consciousness and solidarity. Reed shows how African Americans rapidly transformed Chicago and achieved political and economic recognition

eBook, English, 2011
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2011