Smoketown
Subtitle: the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
By: Mark Whitaker
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781501122392
Subjects: Civilization; African American athletes; Social conditions; Intellectual life; History; African Americans; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-384) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cast of characters; title: Map of Pittsburgh neighborhoods; title: The Brown Bomber's cornermen; title: The Negro Carnegies; title: The calculating crusader; title: The rise and fall of "Big Red"; title: Billy and Lena; title: The Double V warriors; title: The complex Mr. B; title: "Jackie's Boswell"; title: The women of "up south"; title: The bard of a broken world.